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Current conversations:
- Practical uses of operations with fractions
Real world applications of fractions and why it's important to learn
computational operations with them.
- Date of thread's last activity: 6 March 2008
- Suggestions on a better mathematics program
Suggestions on a better mathematics program to enhance the independent
practice work of students.
- Date of thread's last activity: 6 March 2008
- Teaching mathematics creatively
Examples on teaching mathematics to weak students without boring the brighter
students in a class.
- Date of thread's last activity: 6 March 2008
- Counting Coins
Helping a second grader find the value of a group of coins.
- Date of thread's last activity: 6 March 2008
- Probability with dice
Counting possible outcomes when rolling two six-sided dice.
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 March 2008
- Ratio and proportion lesson plan
Introducing ratio and proportion using hands-on activities
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 March 2008
- Fibonacci Sequence
A variety of activities for children grades 3 to 6 that incorporate the
Fibonacci sequence
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 March 2008
- 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
- Congruent angles
Developing the concept of congruent angles with elementary students.
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 March 2008
- Converting whole numbers and decimals to percents
Simplest way to teach a student how to convert whole numbers and decimals
into percents.
- Date of thread's last activity: 3 March 2008
- Mean, median, mode in grade 3
What is the purpose of mean, median, mode? How to help third graders make
sense of median.
- Date of thread's last activity: 29 February 2008
- Cylinders
Helping students design a cylinder with the optimal volume and minimal
surface area.
- Date of thread's last activity: 29 February 2008
- Subtraction with regrouping
Suggestions for alternate subtraction algorithms.
- Date of thread's last activity: 28 February 2008
- Why do we learn math?
Understanding why we study math
- Date of thread's last activity: 27 February 2008
- Caret symbol: ^
Where does the name "caret" for the ^ symbol come from?
- Date of thread's last activity: 21 February 2008
- Journal articles for 7 - 12 grade math
Suggestions for good journal articles on middle and high school teaching.
- Date of thread's last activity: 19 February 2008
- Multiplication teaching strategies
Teaching multiplication to fourth graders for understanding and fluency.
- Date of thread's last activity: 18 February 2008
- Math language
Suggestions for using word walls to develop math vocabulary. Caution about
teaching key words.
- Date of thread's last activity: 17 February 2008
- Teaching area of parallograms
Suggestions for helping students understand why the perpendicular height of a
parallelogram, not its side length, is used to calculate area.
- Date of thread's last activity: 14 February 2008
- Math in everyday living
Math Web sites for mentally challenged students
- Date of thread's last activity: 14 February 2008
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