339 threads found:
- Sales Tax Computation (Backwards)
How to calculate a base price if the sales tax rate and total cost are given.
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 May 2008
- Combinations
How to help students understand a combinations problem regarding forming
committees.
- Date of thread's last activity: 17 November 2010
- Cylinders
Helping students design a cylinder with the optimal volume and minimal
surface area.
- Date of thread's last activity: 29 February 2008
- Parallel lines
Helping students to understand more about parallel lines by visualizing
planes that cut through 3-dimensional figures.
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 April 2008
- Graphing lines (slope/intercept)
Helping students understand and graph linear equations.
- Date of thread's last activity: 27 June 2008
- Probability /statistics simulations
Are simulations valid in experiments?
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 January 2008
- Surface Area of Prisms
Teaching a formula for surface area of a prism.
- Date of thread's last activity: 3 October 2009
- PEMDAS problem
Clarification on using PEMDAS (or BEDMAS) to teach order of operations.
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 June 2008
- Using calculators
Ideas for using calculators in middle grades to develop thinking and problem
solving.
- Date of thread's last activity: 25 November 2007
- Sales tax/interest
Activities for introducing the topic of sales tax and interest to middle
grades students.
- Date of thread's last activity: 18 May 2011
|
The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Drexel University School of Education.