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What Is It About Math Language That Makes It Confusing?

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:09:24 +0000

Through a Linkedin discussion I came across an interesting blog offering an advice of how to handle the situation where "words have different meanings in academic subjects than they have in everyday language." There is a couple of nice examples: ... reducing a fraction to lowest terms has no effect on its value (e.g., 6/8 [...]

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How to Make Your Own Divisibility Criteria

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:30:07 +0000

[mathjax] A decimal integer has the form A divisibility criterion is a procedure, in some sense simpler than straight division, that allows us to determine whether or not number is divisible by another number . For example, is divisible by if and only if the sum of digits is divisible by . For example, is [...]

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Math Teachers at Play - a Blog Carnival, February 2011

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:49:46 +0000

The Math Teachers at Play blog carnival had several articles that especially drew my attention. The visual for explaining and using Equivalent Fractions, Sue Downing found at the Wikiversity website is indeed wonderful. It requires hardly an explanation and beautifully applies to explain the division of fractions process: It is a pity the Wikiversity page [...]

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