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.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Casting Out Nines

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When you first learned your 9 multiplication facts, your teacher may have taught you a helpful memory trick that the digits of the first fe...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Multi-Dimensional Shapes and Pascal's Triangle

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The simplest geometric object is a point.  In Geometry, we learn that a point is a single location without length, width, or height, and is...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The Function x^2 + xy + y^2 – Part 10

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10)    Non-primes to the function x 2 + xy + y 2 (when x and y are positive integers) appear to follow a pattern, and numbers that are no...
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