Now that we’ve determined when procedures are necessary and how to not be entangled in the mindless following of said procedures. Let’s go ahead and review a few simple key steps to making a good procedure. First, when you are faced with a series of problems that appear to contain a hidden truth and consistency […]
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I recently urged you to not lose beauty for the sake of mastering a procedure. I still hold to this, but I want to remind you not to fall off of the horse on the other side. Procedures are important. While it may be true that focusing solely on procedures reduces are children to computers,
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The whole is the sum of its parts. This is a property that we learn and rely heavily upon in our study of Geometry, but we practice its usefulness in Algebra, especially when learning about polynomials. Most students of algebra can look at the figure on the left above and calculate the area of the
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Procedure. When we get bogged down in the weeds it’s often in the weeds of procedure, and it’s procedure that gets us out. We search longingly for the one magic step that will save us from the slough of despond. As though we simply missed a step and fell. Maybe we did. Yet maybe, it
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Ahhh! Optimization! The wonderful world of gathering a plethora of information, variables, realities, and patterns and using it to determine the best possible decision. In Algebra, students dip their toes in the beginnings of optimization with linear equations, but do they know that? Nope. Neither do they know the power they could yield. The reality
