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- Language - "reduce" fractions
Is it correct to use "reduce" when teaching children to simplify fractions?
- Date of thread's last activity: 12 August 2008
- Place value
A calculator activity for building numbers given criteria.
- Date of thread's last activity: 12 August 2008
- Learning Basic Number Facts
Strategies for learning basic number facts.
- Date of thread's last activity: 10 August 2008
- Volume of a sphere
Ideas for introducing students to determining the volume of a sphere.
- Date of thread's last activity: 10 August 2008
- Congruence and transformations
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 August 2008
- Teaching as a career
How is it like being a teacher?
- Date of thread's last activity: 31 July 2008
- Kumon math method
Information on Kumon method of teaching math
- Date of thread's last activity: 24 July 2008
- Order of operations: group activities
Using a list of numbers and operations to reach a goal number.
- Date of thread's last activity: 21 July 2008
- Why study beyond the basics?
Rationale for developing mathematical literacy.
- Date of thread's last activity: 19 July 2008
- Proof for multiplication rule
Using patterns to help students understand the multiplication of integers.
- Date of thread's last activity: 17 July 2008
- Tessellations
Finding examples of tessellations in everyday life
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 July 2008
- Teaching basic addition and subtraction
Ways to begin and augment learning primary mathematics - manipulatives
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 July 2008
- Applications of Percents
Suggestions for a visual approach to teaching applications of percentages to
increase student understanding and retention.
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 July 2008
- Permutations and counting arrangements
Teaching permutations and counting arrangements
- Date of thread's last activity: 11 July 2008
- What kind of material should I be teaching?
Suggestions for helping a student prepare for algebra.
- Date of thread's last activity: 11 July 2008
- Translating word problems into math word list
Developing math vocabulary with middle grades special education students.
- Date of thread's last activity: 11 July 2008
- Preparing for GM entrance exam
Books with graphic arithmetic, reasoning, mechanical comprehension, space
relation, basic algebra and geometry
- Date of thread's last activity: 10 July 2008
- Unit Conversion
A visual diagram to help students remember liquid measure equivalences.
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 July 2008
- Teaching fraction addition
Suggestions for teaching addition of fraction using manipulative
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 July 2008
- Using pattern blocks to understand fractions
Understanding fractions using pattern blocks
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 July 2008
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