170 threads found:
- Modeling Subtraction of Integers using Red and Yellow Counters
How to model addition and subtraction of integers with manipulatives.
- Date of thread's last activity: 23 January 2009
- 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
- Algebra and the # symbol
Using # to express a function. How do you solve it?: If a#b = 3a + 2b, find 5#6.
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 March 2008
- The geometry of the complex roots of graphs
Interesting way of looking at the geometry of the complex roots of graphs
- Date of thread's last activity: 13 September 2012
- Distributive property using manipulatives
Teaching the distributive property to students whose first language is not
English.
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 January 2012
- Graphing: discrete vs continuous data
How do you know when to "connect the dots" on a graph and when not to?
- Date of thread's last activity: 24 September 2010
- Teaching algebra to a non-English speaker
Techniques for teaching algebra to a Spanish-speaking student
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 December 2007
- Determinant used to find the area of a triangle given the three vertices
Finding the area of a triangle using determinants
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 December 2006
- Solving algebraic equations
Teaching students to solve equations with a single variable
- Date of thread's last activity: 20 June 2011
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