I’m off to the Houston Aeros Breast Cancer Awareness Hockey Game today – and it’s making me very aware of how important it is to do monthly breast exams. And the math supports it!
I’m off to the Houston Aeros Breast Cancer Awareness Hockey Game today – and it’s making me very aware of how important it is to do monthly breast exams. And the math supports it!
Seems we have more nativity sets than a family should – so why not do a little math with Jesus and the nativity crew?
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Caroline Mukisa, publisher of Maths Insider, guests today! She talks about the benefits of having the math multiplication facts solidly in your mind as well as ways to help your kids get them there!
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Last week’s article on the order of operations included a quick mention that division is the same as multiplication – but different. Now’s the time to explain that a bit.
Next in the series explaining the order of operations is this discussion on the relation of exponents, addition and multiplication and how to remember the order of operations… the natural way!
Grownups are often frustrated when faced with “they made this math rule just to make me mad” – because we secretly believe that it’s true! Where did these rules come from and how are we supposed to teach them?
We continue the series explaining the order of operations with a discussion on parenthesis and all the various meanings of this word. You’ll be surprised as to what it can mean!
Part 1 in the series. The order of operations is a set of rules – like the drivers’ handbook for math. If everyone follows the rules, we’ll all be safe. But if someone makes a bad turn, we could be looking at a crash.
