When factoring polynomials it’s sometimes nice to use a graphic organizer to keep track of all your work. Here’s a free one! Continue Reading →
Factoring Polynomials – FREE Worksheet
Category Archives: Algebra
Highlights Magazine Math Puzzle – More than Meets the Eye
Do your children read Highlights Magazine? Check out a new way to look at one of the math puzzles! Continue Reading →
Math Rules & Their Destruction of Education
Teaching math rules to kids sounds nice, until they follow them blindly – through all their math classes! Continue Reading →
Polynomial Factoring Practice – with YouTube!
A totally fun video on factoring polynomials along with a worksheet for your kids and a super parent-teacher cheat sheet for you! Continue Reading →
Numbers Instead of Variables
Your math book might show stuff using letters, but when it comes to helping students learn, using the numbers is more important. Continue Reading →
PEMDAS and a Stupid Arbitrary Rule
The order of operations is rife with rules created merely for convenience. When teaching these to kids, it’s clear how they see it as a stupid arbitrary rule. Because often it is! Continue Reading →
Equality and Comparison: Some Ways to Think of Equality
Equality means different things in the real world. And different things in mathematics. This is a look at equality in the real world so we can start to think about the many faces of equality in mathematics. Continue Reading →
Algebra with Stamps
I mailed thank you notes for Daughter’s birthday gifts the other day. And wouldn’t you know it, using the stamps involved algebra! Continue Reading →
Playing with Algebra Concepts
Introduce your children (and yourself) to the commutative and associative properties by starting with some fun toys. Get crazy and get weird! Continue Reading →
Equality and Comparison: Introduction
Ready for a crazy ride through the concepts of equality, inequality and other comparisons? Jump into this series – and keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times! Continue Reading →