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Monthly Archives: March 2013

NEW Educational Apps!

March 29, 2013

Check out these three new iOS apps from the creator of the Math SPOT: Place Value Cards The research behind …

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Teaching Ratio and Proportion in the Middle Grades

March 24, 2013

How often have you seen your students develop mastery of the cross-multiplication algorithm for solving proportions, yet be lost when …

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Problem of the Week 3/18/2013

March 17, 2013

Troy’s new puppy Rocco needed to run around outside, but Troy’s backyard did not have a fence. To keep Rocco …

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Happy Pi Day!

March 13, 2013

Learn more about Archimedes’ method for calculating pi with this interactive activity from NCTM Illuminations. Explore the relationships between a …

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Problem of the Week 3/11/2013

March 10, 2013

An equilateral triangle has the same perimeter as a rectangle whose length is nine less than five times its width. …

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Graphing Linear Equations – Full Body Style

March 6, 2013

Get your students up out of their seats with this activity from the Teaching Channel that helps them to really …

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Candy Pi Calculator

March 5, 2013

A sweet activity for Pi Day from the new Museum of Mathematics in New York City. Enjoy!

What Kids Don’t Know about Measurement Concepts

March 4, 2013

Click here for a handout from Carol Findell’s session at the 2012 annual conference of the National Council of Teachers …

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Logic Games

March 4, 2013

Do you have students who tell you “I’m going to be a lawyer – you don’t need math to study …

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Problem of the Week 3/4/2013

March 4, 2013

At a certain time, Janice notices that her digital watch reads a minutes after two o’clock. Fifteen minutes later, it …

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