Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math
Helping families to learn and enjoy math together.
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David Ng started it. Kurt Van Etten improved it. And I heard about it from MathMom. Now, you’re invited to play, too. It’s fun!
1. Search for your blog on Google. Try to find 5 different phrases that produce your blog as the #1 hit.
2. You may enclose the search phrase in quotes if necessary, but a search without quotes is preferred.
3. Score your search phrases based on the total number of hits. As Kurt wrote:
The ideal search phrase would have your blog being number one out of something like a million hits returned. As it turns out, this is much easier to do than it might sound.
How did you fare on the Frustrating Fractions Quiz? With so many apparent inconsistencies, we can all see why children (and their teachers) get confused. And yet, fractions are vital to our children’s test scores — and scores are important to college admissions officers. What is a teacher to do? Must we tell our children, “Do it this way, and don’t ask questions”?
Parents and teachers are tempted to wonder if the struggle is worth it. After all, how often do you divide by a fraction in your adult life? If only we could skip the hard stuff…
And since this is supposedly a teaching blog, here are some “educational” links:
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A Thomas Jefferson Education: 6th Edition
And a couple others, just for fun:
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Here are a couple of quick links to math in the news:
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