Basic Algebra Practice Test Questions
Basic Algebra questions are common on most College Entrance exams, High School exams, Nursing Entrance Exams and High School Equivalence exams.
Jan 29, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Ordering and Comparing Fractions
When students are asked to order and compare fractions, they almost always start by finding common denominators. This strategy is based on rote memorization and leads to little or no true understanding of fractions (and can be utterly frustrating!). Students cannot visualize the fractions. This article explains how to help your students compare and order [...]
May 13, 2013 | 0 comments
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Developing Deductive Reasoning with Hula Hoop
Here is a fun game to help students in your elementary math classroom – develop their observation skills while at the same time practice their deductive reasoning. My students have named this game “Soup,” and we pretend that we are cooking up a delicious soup. Feel free to adapt it to your own students’ interests. [...]
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 comments
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Primary Geometry All Around
Here’s a fun way to integrate math, technology and language in one project for your youngest learners. Mathematically, students learn about solid figures and their properties. Technologically, they use digital cameras and work with word processing programs to insert pictures, word process and format documents. Students practice writing original thoughts and grammatically correct sentences as [...]
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 comments
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Math Manipulatives in Middle School
Most teachers are very comfortable using manipulatives with their youngest students. However, fewer and fewer manipulatives are utilized as students enter middle school, and rote memorization of rules becomes the focus. Yet, Middle School Learners benefit from the use of manipulatives just as much as younger students do. Students find that decimals, fractions and integers [...]
Mar 26, 2013 | 0 comments
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Geometry Math Stars for Christmas!
Learn and Practice Geometry by Making Your own Family Christmas Tree Star Ornaments! Great for decorating your Christmas Tree or for making a Gift to give to a friend or family member. Materials Needed: Colored Markers or Crayons Glue or Scotch Tape Scissors Colored Yarn or String Sparkles Colorful Recycled Paper (tissue boxes, flyers, old [...]
Drawing with Pythagoras
“Pythagorean Theorem?!!”…I know what you are thinking…..(You can say to your class)…..”OMG Teacher…..What could we possibly ever use this for, in the future of our lives?“……Well, in this article, we talk about real life examples of using the Pythagorean Theorem. First let’s learn a basic calculation, corresponding to the diagram here to the <<left, followed [...]
Oct 04, 2012 | 2 comments
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Teaching Math: A Breeze when Incorporating Favorite Interests
Teaching math in the Elementary classroom can be a challenge, as all elementary math teachers know, but when favorite activities of students are incorporated into the curriculum, it can be a breeze. When students have a required learning skill to attain, and they incorporate their favorite interests, then there is inspiration – and the student [...]
Aug 24, 2012 | 0 comments
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Flower Geometry on Summer Vacation
Summer can be fun Learning Math on your camping trip or at home in your backyard. An interesting approach to learning geometry in elementary math is by the study of flowers found in your backyard (or schoolyard in Spring or Fall). Have your class walk around the local grounds, or give them an assignment to go [...]
Jul 25, 2012 | 0 comments
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The Fibonacci Sequence
Fibonacci is a Number / Integer Sequence, that when applied in geometrical form, manifests in a Spiral as in that of a Pine Cone or a SeaShell. The sequence was named after an Italian mathematician known as Leonardo of Pisa (or Leonardo de Fibonacci). In 1202, he wrote a book called Liber Abaci in which [...]
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 comments
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Easter Egg Hunt 100 and Under
Easter is the central feast and holiday in the Christian year representing Jesus’ Ascension. It culminates the end of 40 days of fasting from the person’s choice. Some people refrain from eating chocolate for 40 days until Easter weekend! Then they have an Easter Egg Hunt whereby one person hides chocolate eggs and the others [...]