221 threads found:
- Teaching bases to middle school children
Strategies for teaching bases to middle school children.
- Date of thread's last activity: 21 November 1998
- MANIPULATIVES
Suggestions for effective use of manipulatives in the elementary classroom.
- Date of thread's last activity: 9 June 2011
- Flatland in honors geometry
Ideas for projects related to Flatland for an honors geometry class.
- Date of thread's last activity: 12 November 1998
- Multiplication
Suggestion for teaching two- and three-digit multiplication.
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 November 1998
- Algebra - 8th grade
Suggestions for helping students solve word problems with algebra.
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 December 2007
- "Bottoms up" as a method to factor trinomials
A method for factoring trinomials and why it works.
- Date of thread's last activity: 14 April 2013
- Remembering meaning of "multiples" and "factors"
When speaking and writing about math, many students have difficulty
remembering when to use "factor" vs. "multiple." Here is a suggestion.
- Date of thread's last activity: 19 February 2009
- Volume problem
Determining useful, necessary, and sufficient information to solve volume
problems.
- Date of thread's last activity: 29 April 2008
- Manipulatives for square roots
Helping students understand square roots visually when they're not dealing
with perfect squares.
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 December 2007
- Forgiving Method/Partial Quotient Method of Division
Regardless of the name of the division method, there are ways to help
students understand the concept of division by teaching alternative methods
to the traditional "long division" method.
- Date of thread's last activity: 9 May 2008
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