Carnival of Math #18 was posted Saturday evening at JD2718. Jonathan has put together a tremendous list of 52 blog posts, with these instructions:
1) Scroll, 2) Click, 3) Enjoy, 4) Repeat.
It is too much to take in on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, but I know I have some great math reading to look forward to this week.
Edited to add: There is an addendum post, too. Enjoy!
Classes are back in session at our homeschool co-op, so I am again collecting short quotes for the blackboard. Here are the ones I used in September:
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Life without geometry is pointless.
You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
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The ability to solve word problems ranks high on any math teacher’s list of goals. How can I teach my students to solve math problems? I must help them develop the ability to translate “real world” situations into mathematical language.
In two previous posts, I introduced the problem-solving tools algebra and bar diagrams. These tools help our students organize the information in a word problem and translate it into a mathematical calculation.
This time I will demonstrate these problem-solving tools in action with a series of 3rd-grade problems based on the Singapore Primary Math series, level 3A. For your reading pleasure, I have translated the problems into the life of Ben Franklin, inspired by the biography Poor Richard by James Daugherty.
Continue reading Ben Franklin Math: Elementary Problem Solving 3rd Grade
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Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math 