Students’ understanding of mathematics is a function of the quality and quantity of the connections of a concept with other concepts. As I always say in this blog, ‘To understand
Linking combination and permutation with repetition
Combinatorial problems are difficult because it’s hard to know which formula to use in a particular problem and when you need to ‘tweak’ or totally abandon the formula. In this post
What is proportional reasoning? Does cross multiplication help learn it?
Proportional reasoning is a capstone of children’s elementary school arithmetic and a cornerstone of all that is to follow (Lesh & Post, 1988). But for some reason, the teaching of elementary
What is reasoning? How can we teach it?
The world does not give us complete information that’s why call on our power of reasoning to complete this information the best we can and produce new knowledge. Mathematics is