Horse to fly, multiply

Mar 13, 12 Horse to fly, multiply

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Submitted by: Jolene Here's a trick I use for teaching kids to convert measurements: Horse to fly, multiply. Fly to horse, divide, of course. This has really stuck better with the kids than anything I have tried over the years. They can identify big to small multiply and carry it in their...

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Fraction Calculator

Here is a fraction calculator that will performs addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on two fractions for you. It also will reduces the result to the lowest terms if you want it too. A fractions calculator is a great help to check your own calculations. However, using our free online fraction calculator will not...

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Using Games Effectively in the Mathematics Classroom

Educational Math Games: An educational math game is a fun and challenging context in which students interact cooperatively or competitively to achieve a defined goal within a specified set of circumstances while learning or practising identified cognitive, affective or psychomotor skills. About Math Games: can be used to involve...

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Zero

Nov 28, 11 Zero

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"Zero and infinity are eternally locked in a struggle to engulf all the numbers. Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles of the number sphere, sucking numbers in like tiny black holes." [p. 145]  Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea What made me fall in love with math was actually not by doing math but...

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