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- Expanded form
Teaching expanded notation in third grade.
- Date of thread's last activity: 12 February 2012
- Technology for advanced 5th-7th graders
Internet sites and LEGO suggestions for using technology in the classroom.
- Date of thread's last activity: 9 February 2012
- Decimal manipulatives
Teaching decimals to 5th graders
- Date of thread's last activity: 31 January 2012
- 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
- Pre-calculus
A discussion of jobs that use polar coordinates and imaginary numbers
- Date of thread's last activity: 20 January 2012
- 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
- Math workshops
Getting federal or private funds to attend some math workshops.
- Date of thread's last activity: 20 January 2012
- Implementation of math manipulatives in grades k-6
Advantages in implementation of math manipulatives in grades k-6
- Date of thread's last activity: 20 January 2012
- Preparing for GM entrance exam
Books with graphic arithmetic, reasoning, mechanical comprehension, space
relation, basic algebra and geometry
- Date of thread's last activity: 19 January 2012
- Volume of a sphere
Ideas for introducing students to determining the volume of a sphere.
- Date of thread's last activity: 19 January 2012
- TI-83 or TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator
Differences between TI-83 and TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 January 2012
- Linear and exponential equations
Differences between linear and exponential equations
- Date of thread's last activity: 11 January 2012
- Borrowing in mathematics
What is the best way to teach borrowing in mathematics?
- Date of thread's last activity: 11 January 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
- Math history for middle school students
Suggestions for teaching middle school students about math history and the
lives of mathematicians.
- Date of thread's last activity: 30 December 2011
- 8th grade Algebra - Probability
Finding the probability, when two standard dice are rolled, that at least one
die will land on 6.
- Date of thread's last activity: 30 December 2011
- Learning math through songs
Using songs in teaching math
- Date of thread's last activity: 9 November 2011
- Teaching basic addition and subtraction
Ways to begin and augment learning primary mathematics - manipulatives
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 November 2011
- Tessellations and symmetry - 4th grade
Letters, mirrors, index cards, and software for teaching symmetry.
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 November 2011
- Integration
What is the basic idea behind Integration?
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 November 2011
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