Algebra

Parts > Whole

32 3 14,684 242 What, you don’t know what I’m telling you? These num­bers don’t mean any­thing to you? Ran­dom num­bers. That’s what they seem to be. You could prob­a­bly guess a mean­ing for each of these num­bers.  But, you’d be guess­ing, you would­n’t know.  As far as argu­ing or mak­ing a state­ment, we don’t […]

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Supplementary Math Programs

First, let’s define some terms. What is sup­ple­men­tary? In math­e­mat­ics, the term sup­ple­men­tary refers to the pair of angles that form a line.  The sum of their angle mea­sures is 180 degrees.  Obvi­ous­ly, when we say ‘sup­ple­men­tary math’, we aren’t refer­ring to angles.  Rather, we are allud­ing to the need to sup­ple­ment a main math

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Why Curriculum?

What is Cur­ricu­lum?  When I was in col­lege, I had a pro­fes­sor who was very adamant about the fact that cur­ricu­lum is not a book.  She would go around the room ask­ing us to explain the cur­ricu­lum for geom­e­try or pre alge­bra.  Then, she would get hys­ter­i­cal if we men­tioned a spe­cif­ic book in our

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Mathematics Curriculum Review Series: Teaching Textbooks

Do you want a clas­sic math­e­mat­ics text­book cre­at­ed with the home school fam­i­ly in mind?  How about a text­book that uti­lizes online and soft­ware pro­grams that track stu­den­t’s progress?  Are you intim­i­dat­ed by hav­ing to cor­rect and explain math­e­mat­ics con­cepts to your child?  Then Teach­ing Text­books may be the math pro­gram for you.  Teach­ing Textbooks

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