Math Teacher at Play (MTAP) #51 is now live in Math Mama Writes …. Really great collection of 51 posts from teachers, lecturers, professors, bloggers, … in the following categories: Arithmetic,
Ten problem solving and geometric construction tasks
I’ve written a number of posts the last couple of months which I published in other sites. They are problem solving tasks mostly in geometry using GeoGebra and a few on
Line multiplication and the FOIL method
Line multiplication is a nice activity for teaching multiplication especially for more than one-digit numbers. The method is shown in the figure. The horizontal line represents the number 13 where
Two Plus Two Apples or Why Indians Flunk
I found a piece of paper with this little poem inserted in my old notebook. It was written by Beverly Slapin. I realized I was born an Indian and will always