The Importance of Math in School The formal definition of mathematics, as given by Webster’s Dictionary, is the science of numbers and their operations, interrelations, combinations, generalizations, and abstractions. Math goes even farther beyond this rather limited definition. Math is more than a science of numbers. It requires a certain type of mindset to be ...
During my student teaching months, I had the opportunity to work alongside a wonderful math teacher who made learning fun. She taught her students games with a deck of cards to help them work with simple math operations, factors, and prime numbers. In this article, I will share a few of those games she used ...
The Middle Ages were generally a dark time for most cultural endeavors, but especially for mathematics. Fortunately, around the beginning of the 1200s an Italian by the name of Leonardo Pisano came along to advanced mathematics significantly – he wrote many books on numerical topics that included his own insightful contributions. For someone to come ...
Students generally have their first encounters with prime and composite numbers in upper elementary or middle-school math classes. As a middle-school math teacher, I find that asking students to interact in any lesson produces a better learning outcome. This plan for teaching prime and composite numbers always works well with my math students. For Your ...
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 ...
