Tag: Ratio
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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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The Snooze Button is Now a Math Problem
Yesterday I came across this problem while planning a lesson on ratio and proportion: "When I woke up this morning, I hit the snooze button and got 10 extra minutes to sleep. Every time I hit the button, I get 10 extra minutes. At this rate, if my alarm first goes off at 5:30 and…
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Rotten Tomatoes, Linear Equations, Ratio and Proportion
This problem came about because I was talking about solving the equation 4x + y = – 14 for y and there was a little confusion about how I could subtract 4x from – 14. Although this was really a problem with combining like terms, I figured that now was as good of a time…
Jon Oaks 