Check out this photo of two books explaining the addition of fractions – one from 1880 and one from 2009.
Check out this photo of two books explaining the addition of fractions – one from 1880 and one from 2009.
I got free tickets to a hockey game and then spent way more money than I normally would have. Did they make money off me?
Lack of thinking caused a local McDonalds to lose me as a customer. Because there was “no button for that.”
Many people don’t carpool these days because they have to bind children in expensive car seats until they’re 25 years old. If you consider the numbers, though, it just might be worth it to invest in another car seat!
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!
A pseudo review of a book I’ve wanted for a while. You Can Count on Monsters by Richard Even Schwartz illustrates the numbers from 1 to 100 – with monsters and factorizations!
Seems we have more nativity sets than a family should – so why not do a little math with Jesus and the nativity crew?
My trip to the H-E-B pharmacy yielded a pleasant surprise of finding the clerk to be a gen-Y math success!
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While playing Simply Fun’s Math’d Potatoes game with my parents, I was reminded how “math people” can really damper math learning.
