Studies show that students whose understanding of subtraction is only to take away will have difficulty learning other mathematical concepts. There are three ways by which subtraction can be understood:
Constructing polygons with equal area
The power of GeoGebra lies not only for demonstrating a concept but more so for creating a situation where students are made to think, solve problems, and reason mathematically. Here is
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What exactly is the square root of 36?
Mathematics is already a difficult subject so let us not make it more difficult to students to make sense of with the confusing rules we tell them. For example, we