Comparison: Comparison sometimes comes before definition, but we are exploring it second. While I admit that we tend to compare things before we truly understand what they are, I also acknowledge that the only way to compare things thoroughly is to first define them. We compare things instinctively, which is why you won’t be shocked to […]
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This month we contemplated the relationship between numbers and their reciprocals. This simple idea that 2 times 1/2 is equal to 1 quickly moves from stating “the number that when multiplied by 2 makes 1 is one-half” to “one over 1/2 is 2”. If we started with the truth that 1/1/2 = 2, then we’d
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The beginning of the school year is full of promises. Piles of freshly bought and bound books pose beside bouquets of freshly sharpened pencil while the autumn sun streams in the window. In the fall, the world is our oyster. Educators, much like gardeners in spring, plan great things and venture forth into the ideal.
It’s math challenge time! Engaging in riddles and games is a common past time and a rewarding one. When we try to solve a riddle or play a strategy game we stretch our minds in the same way that my Pre algebra students learn to stretch theirs. In this, our minds grow and we are
Before Christmas, I asked my Pre algebra students why we cut our pies and pizzas into 8 slices. While there is the occasional rebel slicing the pies into 6 slices and some pizzas into 12 slices, the vast majority of us seem to favor 8. Is it because we all love the number 8? What’s
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