The Lost Math Lessons

As a high school math teacher, I often run across or develop math ideas that are not taught in a typical math curriculum. Here are some of those ideas.

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Showing posts with label number chart. Show all posts
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Divisibility Rules

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When you were younger, you probably learned to skip count by 2, 5, and 10.  Skip counting by 2 leads to the sequence 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Finger Multiplication

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Tobias Dantzig makes mention of the lost art of finger multiplication in his book Number: The Language of Science , first published in 1930...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Repeating Decimals

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In our monetary system, different coins represent different fractions of a dollar, and most of us have memorized a few basic fraction to de...
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