314 threads found:
- Formula for volume of cones/pyramids
A physical demonstration of the fraction 1/3 in the volume formulas for cones
and pyramids.
- Date of thread's last activity: 20 January 2012
- Perpendicular Lines & Gradients
An activity to help students discover the relationship between slopes of
perpendicular lines.
- Date of thread's last activity: 1 November 1998
- Probability
Suggestions for teaching probability.
- Date of thread's last activity: 30 October 1998
- Functional, life math skills for autistic teenager
Math resources for autistic high school student with math difficulties.
- Date of thread's last activity: 18 November 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
- Rigor
What is rigor in math education? This offers a perspective on how much and
what kind of rigor is appropriate.
- Date of thread's last activity: 24 May 2006
- Foundations of Math - block schedule
How to organize a 95-minute instructional block in a middle school math class.
- Date of thread's last activity: 10 December 2007
- 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
- Code breaking - History
Including history when teaching encoding and decoding using matrices. Was the
Enigma machine based on matrices or another encryption technique?
- Date of thread's last activity: 20 January 2012
- Which algorithms should we still teach in high school?
With technology available in classrooms, should we be teaching the square
root algorithm? Cramer's rule? Descartes rule of signs?
- Date of thread's last activity: 10 November 2006
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