Tag: Measurement
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Scotch Tape and Gas Prices Dilemma
So, my whole recent obsession with Scotch Tape sort of began a few weeks ago when the following problem popped into my mind… Suppose your boss wants you to buy six 1/2 in x 450 in rolls of Scotch tape at the dollar store (remember the 6% Michigan sales tax). Your boss wants you to…
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Games, Activities, and Useful Web Tools.
Here’s a rundown of some of the games and activities that I’ve recently used in the classroom, along with various other useful links that I can see being applicable to learning and education. 1. Ed On Your Own Crossword Puzzles – This particular link from Ed on Your Own has a list of free printable math…
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New Application Problems from the Classroom
Here are few more problems that I came up with during today’s class: 1. Clyde owed 8 different people $4 each for some doughnuts that he bought to eat on his birthday. Then when he wasn’t looking, Hellman’s stole $4 from Clyde’s wallet. In order to reclaim his debt, Clyde needed to split up his…
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Joliprint, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Teaching Measurement
There have been so many times when I have wanted to print something from the web, but have had a very hard time getting it to print out correctly. Joliprint is a resource that will definitely solve (most) of your problems. For example, the other day, I printed this Convert, then Compete blog post from the Chronicle…
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Dimensional Analysis Problem
The other day in my Pre-Algebra class at HFCC we were talking about geometry, but I wanted to link it to the dimensional analysis that we had just done in the previous chapter since I knew that some of the students were struggling with the concept and could probably use the review. So, when the…
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