First let me assure all the educators out there that these lesson plans are not designed to add more work to an already over worked teacher hectic day. Quite the contrary; I’ve been teaching long enough to hate those pie-in-the -sky ideas that sound so very grand, but in reality are just an enormous amount ...
If you are coding in JAVA and you need to get input from a text file there are many ways you can choose to accomplish this. File reading objects such as Scanner, BufferedReader, and FileReader are commonly used in java. This article will focus on using the Scanner class in reading files in java. Suppose ...
Integers are the whole numbers and their opposites (…-2, -1, 0, 1, 2…). Students, particularly in middle school, will be learning to subtract these positive and negative numbers. As a long time middle school math teacher, I know that this math lesson isn’t easy for these kids. I believe, however, that when a little rhyme, ...
SOLVING ARITHMETIC SEQUENCES The following examples are problems involving arithmetic sequences. I included here several sample problems with their solutions. Problem Number One : If the first three terms of an arithmetic sequence are 2, 6 and 10, find the 40th term. To solve the problem we use this formula for finding the nth term ...
What if the number one had a different square root than one? It actually does. I am publishing my finding as an “opinion” because my sort of logic is routinely considered to be anti-scientific and it definitely should be. It it not really a complicated trick just an understanding that mathematics is a human construct ...
