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- Teaching dividing fractions
An activity for finding an algorithm.
- Date of thread's last activity: 18 September 2009
- Factoring the sum and difference of two cubes
How to factor the sum and difference of two cubes; how to teach it.
- Date of thread's last activity: 10 September 2009
- Front End Estimation
Using front end estimation to solve problems
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 September 2009
- Need Teacher's Ed Vol 1for Calculus by Swokowski
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 September 2009
- Multiplication with your ten fingers
Using finger techniques to determine multiplication products
- Date of thread's last activity: 1 September 2009
- New examples of growth in calculus
Where to look for growth/decay application problems.
- Date of thread's last activity: 30 August 2009
- A different way to subtract than normally taught
Examples of ways to subtract numbers without using traditional "borrowing"
- Date of thread's last activity: 23 August 2009
- Decomposing numbers
State Standards include "decomposing numbers". What does it mean?
- Date of thread's last activity: 23 August 2009
- Teaching Math as a language
- Date of thread's last activity: 23 August 2009
- Plotting points on a graph
When is it appropriate, and not appropriate, to connect the points on a graph?
- Date of thread's last activity: 13 August 2009
- Fraction notation in algebra 1
Fostering understanding among colleagues regarding fraction notation in algebra.
- Date of thread's last activity: 11 August 2009
- Interviewing questions
Suggestions on questions to ask when interviewing new teachers
- Date of thread's last activity: 8 August 2009
- Homeschooling Math
Suggestions for assisting an 6th grade homeschooler in math
- Date of thread's last activity: 27 July 2009
- Multiplication tables
Ways to get child to comprehend what is memorized from multiplication tables
- Date of thread's last activity: 26 July 2009
- Multiplication table
Helping a 13 year old with her times tables.
- Date of thread's last activity: 25 July 2009
- Children's literature and multiplication
What titles in children's literature can be integrated into the teaching of
the multiplication concept?
- Date of thread's last activity: 25 July 2009
- Pythagorean Theorem
One way to teach the Pythagorean Theorem
- Date of thread's last activity: 23 July 2009
- Multi-age classroom teaching
Important considerations for teaching in multiage classrooms
- Date of thread's last activity: 22 July 2009
- Integrating math and biology
Integrating Math and Biology
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 July 2009
- Curving test scores
A teacher offers reasons for curving or not curving test scores.
- Date of thread's last activity: 15 July 2009
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