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Math Poster Contest
Inspired by a poster of the Quadratic Formula that one of my students brought in today, I’m making it official! Next term I’m going to have a Math Poster Contest between both of my classes at IADT, and I think that in addition to being a 100 point project, that the winner will receive a…
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Math Manga
I was talking with some of my students this afternoon who asked me about my interest in Anime and Manga. Of course, I immediately was intrigued by the possibility of combining Math and Manga and did a Google search (I’m really trying to avoid using Google as a verb these days) for “Math Manga”. Well,…
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Math Themed Haunted House
Earlier this semester (before I got sick for an extended period of two and a half weeks), I was really entergetic about trying out new ideas in the classroom. Although the execution by the students could have been a little better, the students were engaged, which counts as a big deal to me. If I…
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Teaching Equations to Pre-Algebra Students
I got in a heated discussion the other day with a couple of colleagues about how to teach equation solving to pre-algebra students. The equation x + (1/2) = (3/4) came to mind because generally I start a discussion of equations by showing examples of one-step equations. However, this equation (or most equations with fractions…
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Mathematics Origami
This morning with a stack of blank, unused paper sitting right next to me, I was thinking about some new projects that I might be able to assign my students for next semester. Then it popped into my mind… Origami! I think an assignment on origami would be especially interesting to my students in art…
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Basic Technical Mathematics Resources
This website is full of resources that I accumulated while teaching MATH 100 (Basic Technical Mathematics) at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, MI during the Winter 2010 semester. The textbook we used was Elementary Technical Mathematics, 9th Edition by Ewen and Nelson (Thompson-Brooks/Cole; ISBN: 0-495-01274-2). I hope you find them useful. http://bit.ly/math100
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