No one can teach mathematics without knowing mathematics but not everyone who knows mathematics can teach it well. Below are two tasks about teaching fractions and decimals that would give
Category: Algebra
Math knowledge for teaching tangent to a curve
I am creating a new category of posts about mathematical tasks aimed at developing teachers’ math knowledge for teaching. Most of the tasks I will present here have been used
Math Teachers at Play Blog Carnival
Math Teachers At Play- Blog Carnival #49 of Let’s Play Math is now live in TeachBesideMe. Go check-out the fabulous submissions and of course the photos and images. Mathematics for Teaching will
Teaching maximum area problem with GeoGebra
Remember that classic maximum area problem? Here’s a version of it: Pam wishes to fence off a rectangular vegetable garden in her backyard. She has 18 meters of fencing wire which