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- Mathematics language and word problems
Helping middle school students develop math language skills in order to
understand and solve word problems.
- Date of thread's last activity: 1 July 2008
- Graphing lines (slope/intercept)
Helping students understand and graph linear equations.
- Date of thread's last activity: 27 June 2008
- Help Finding a Textbook
Resources for teaching an introductory statistics course as an elective in
middle school.
- Date of thread's last activity: 23 June 2008
- Dr. Math as an educative tool in an elementary class
Integration of Dr. Math into an elementary classroom.
- Date of thread's last activity: 22 June 2008
- PEMDAS problem
Clarification on using PEMDAS (or BEDMAS) to teach order of operations.
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 June 2008
- Imagination and improvisation in higher math - How to teach this?
- Date of thread's last activity: 10 June 2008
- Calculus
- Date of thread's last activity: 6 June 2008
- Ordinal numbers in first grade
Suggestions for teaching ordinal numbers in primary grades, especially with
regard to directionality.
- Date of thread's last activity: 5 June 2008
- Non-Euclidean Geometry
Hyperbolic geometry and the angle of parallelism
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 June 2008
- Developing understanding in high school math
Suggestions for developing understanding of high school math, beyond rote
memorization.
- Date of thread's last activity: 3 June 2008
- Math Symbols
The meaning of a three line equal sign
- Date of thread's last activity: 1 June 2008
- Teaching exponential function
How can I teach the exponential function?
- Date of thread's last activity: 1 June 2008
- Showing a student how to do division in the simpliest way
An alternative algorithm for long division, sometimes called the "partial
quotients" method.
- Date of thread's last activity: 28 May 2008
- Coordinate proofs
Ideas about how to introduce, teach, practice, and assess a unit on Coordinate
proofs
- Date of thread's last activity: 23 May 2008
- How to discuss my son's need for more math instruction
Supporting a gifted child's math needs at home and advocating for appropriate
programming at school.
- Date of thread's last activity: 23 May 2008
- Patterns in multiplying by 0 and 1
Helping elementary students understand the effect of multiplying by 0 and 1
(the Zero Property and Identity Element of Multiplication).
- Date of thread's last activity: 22 May 2008
- Summer work with children at home
I'd like to use the Everyday Math Program - how can I get copies?
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 May 2008
- Teaching polynomials to 8th graders
Manipulatives (algebra tiles) for teaching polynomials.
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 May 2008
- Trigonometry Ratios
Sohcahtoa: a mnemonic for remembering trigonometry ratios.
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 May 2008
- Geometry
Restructuring a geometry class in order to incorporate student-generated
questions.
- Date of thread's last activity: 15 May 2008
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