24 April 2024
HELP! Many of My College Students Don't Know Why We Call Our Number System Base Ten!
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Don't you love tests where you ask a question which you believe everyone will get correct, and then find out it just isn't so? I ga...
17 April 2024
Making Butterflies from Recycled Materials - Earth Day Ideas
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When one of my granddaughters was in kindergarten, she came home one day with egg carton caterpillars. I know most of us have made one of ...
10 April 2024
Earth Day is April 22nd. How Will You Celebrate?
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Earth Day began in 1970, when Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, wanted nation-wide teaching on the environment. He brought th...
03 April 2024
Techniques for Remembering the Slope for Vertical and Horizontal Lines
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I work in the Math Lab at the community college where I also teach. Last week, I had two College Algebra students who were having difficulty...
20 March 2024
When Dividing, Zero Is No Hero - Why We Can't Divide by Zero
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Have you ever wondered why we can't divide by zero? I remember asking that long ago in a math class, and the teacher's response wa...
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