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Current conversations:
- Tangrams
Information on tangrams.
- Date of thread's last activity: 1 November 2011
- Low Performance in Mathematics
- Date of thread's last activity: 31 October 2011
- Factoring and quadratics
Real life examples: area (tiling a floor), marketing (pricing tickets).
- Date of thread's last activity: 29 October 2011
- Teaching Problem Solving
Suggestions for teaching problem solving and print resources to explore.
- Date of thread's last activity: 11 October 2011
- Club activities
Making Math Club more interesting.
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 October 2011
- Place value
A calculator activity for building numbers given criteria.
- Date of thread's last activity: 27 September 2011
- Pi and the area of a circle
Methods for demonstrating the relationship between Pi and the area of a circle.
- Date of thread's last activity: 27 September 2011
- Individualized math contracts
Individualized math contracts where students work at their own pace on their
own from workbooks.
- Date of thread's last activity: 22 September 2011
- Dividing fractions
Why inverting is used in division of fractions
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 September 2011
- least common multiple (LCM)
Teaching the concept of least common multiple (LCM).
- Date of thread's last activity: 31 August 2011
- Classroom Openers
Warm up activities and class "grabbers" for starting off the math class.
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 August 2011
- Teaching mean, median, and mode (8th grade and below)
Use letters, food (raisins, candy packs), and marbles to gather real data.
- Date of thread's last activity: 29 July 2011
- Solving algebraic equations
Teaching students to solve equations with a single variable
- Date of thread's last activity: 20 June 2011
- MANIPULATIVES
Suggestions for effective use of manipulatives in the elementary classroom.
- Date of thread's last activity: 9 June 2011
- Expanded notation
Where can I find old editions of math textbooks? What is expanded notation?
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 June 2011
- 2nd semester Calculus
Understanding L'Hopital's rule
- Date of thread's last activity: 28 May 2011
- Non-Euclidean Geometry
Hyperbolic geometry and the angle of parallelism
- Date of thread's last activity: 25 May 2011
- Algebraic expressions and equations
Tips for teaching students to solve algebraic equations and simultaneous
equations
- Date of thread's last activity: 25 May 2011
- smsg math texts
- Date of thread's last activity: 24 May 2011
- 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
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