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What if the Teacher won’t Let us do it like that?
Posted in math education on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finding and Using the Area of a Plane Surface
Posted in math education on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to measure any rectangle, it works the same as a square, just multiply the base times the height. “Square” somethings don’t only measure squares. We can use little square boxes to measure any two-dimensional shape. Think of it this way:
The “squares” in the “square somethings” we are talking about refer to the little squares we are using to measure the area of the shape, they do not refer to the shape itself.
Math Tests
Posted in math education on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The way we test is one of the reasons so many students unnecessarily hate math.
Learn to Multiply
Posted in math education, tagged How to Multiply, Learn to Multiply, what is multiplication on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the tragedies of American (and other) schools is that something as simple and important as multiplication isn’t taught well at all. We still hear things like “multiplication is repeated addition” (it is not), and “multiplication makes things bigger.” The latter statement is one of the truisms that totally screws kids up when they [...]
“Math Wars”
Posted in math education, Uncategorized, tagged math education, math reform, math wars, new math on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished writing an post about the wars between “traditionalist” and “constructivist” math education. It’s a pain in the behind listening to each group snipe at each other, when both of them are ignoring some of the essentials of education, like, there is no one best way to teach all students. Check it out [...]
