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Mathematics articles for teachers and other educators. "Mathematics education is the study of practices and methods of both the teaching and learning of mathematics. Furthermore, mathematics educators are concerned with the development of tools that facilitate practice and/or the study of practice. Mathematics education has been a hotly debated subject in modern society. There is an ambiguity in the term for it refers both to these practices in classrooms around the world, but also to an emergent discipline with its own journals, conferences, etc." Source: Wikipedia.
By Joe Pagano
So you think you can’t do math, huh? Well, what if I told you that without even an algebra background I could teach you some calculus right here and now? You don’t believe me. I thought so. This unbelief proves how programmed you’ve been from early on to reject mathematical teachings. Whoever laid this negativity on you really did a number on you. Well, let’s get rid of that negative programming and feed you some really positive stuff.
In this short article, I am going to pr
12: Learn Math through Poetry (0.00/5)
By Joe Pagano
Since mathematics as a whole is a difficult subject to learn, maybe different approaches are needed in the teaching of this discipline. Certainly the hands-on approach gives students a tactile perspective to the inner workings of this subject, while the real-life applications approach lets students see and understand how mathematics is used in the real world and in different worldly settings. Could poetry be another approach through which to teach and learn this most fascinati
13: Mental Math Practice Worksheets (Not Rated)
by Shilpa Rao
Today, we all know the importance of learning and marveling at mathematics. And every time we visit our children's schools we see Chinese and Indian students marveling at SATs. And we all know why they succeed in Engineering and Medical fields. Answer is quite simple, they are good at Math. But why are they so good? How did they study Math that makes them so good at that one arduous subject?
When we go to teacher meetings we are told by the teachers, to marvel at Math one mu
14: Teenage Problems and Math - Could There Be a Connection? (2.00/5)
By Joe Pagano
Children who are difficult to manage are often poor problem solvers. Any parent who is experiencing trouble raising their teenage son or daughter knows how vexing a problem this can be. My wife and I experienced this firsthand and I can honestly tell you that the trials we went through were nothing short of nightmarish. After purchasing a specialized program to teach us how to deal with this problem, we learned that children who are behavior problems are often poor problem sol
15: Using Math to Keep From Getting the Common Cold - Or Worse! (5.00/5)
By Joe Pagano
We all know how annoying and vexing the common cold virus can be, particularly during the winter season. Nobody likes that runny nose or that constant urge to sneeze; nor is the coughing, headache, or scratchy throat anything to write home about. To avoid catching the common cold, we know that we should wash our hands often and keep from being breathed or sneezed on by those already infected. Yet despite all our efforts, we still seem to get that yearly cold. Maybe mathematics
16: Math is Hard - But Then Again So is Life (Not Rated)
by Joe Pagano
When I contemplate the title of this article, I enter a reverie which catapults me back twenty-five years to my college days. Back then, I learned how hard mathematics was. Often I felt inferior to tackle such a difficult subject with my limited brain capacity. Little did I know then that in retrospect I would come to understand that indeed math is hard, but that life too is just as challenging.
Life in many respects can be compared to a series of mathematical problems. Eac
17: Why Study Math? - Fractals (Not Rated)
by Joe Pagano
Mathematics has a way of taking us by the hand and not just leading us down the path of reason, as Pythagoras once said, but sometimes down the path of insanity. With all the beautiful truths that math can show us, there are also inherent contradictions of nature that this field forces upon our senses. Such seeming impossibilities are found within the world of fractals, those weird yet curious geometric objects that have caused us to look at nature in a whole new way. From the
18: Learning Math With Manipulatives -- The Abacus (5.00/5)
by Peter Waycik
The abacus has been around in various forms for over 2300 years. It was used for various counting and operational tasks. One might even call it the original math manipulative (unless you count fingers and stones). In my younger years, abaci were relegated to the bottom shelf or used as a toy for the kinesthetic kids. These days, abaci can meet the same fate that the abaci of my youth did. The first known abacus, the Salamis tablet, collected dust for over 2100 years. For all
19: Why Study Math? - The Fibonacci Sequence and Sex Appeal (Not Rated)
by Joe Pagano
Oh, that field of math. Don't you just love to hate it? Yet you have to admit that when someone explains some of its beauty to you and you get it, you marvel at how amazing a field it actually is. Such is the case with number sequences and in particular one called the Fibonacci sequence. For those who do not know what a sequence is, it is simply a list of numbers that follow some predefined rule. For example, the sequence 2, 4, 6, 8 is the arithmetic sequence which is defined
20: Why Study Math - Probability and the Birthday Paradox (Not Rated)
by Joe Pagano
When I decided to become a mathematics major in college, I knew that in order to complete this degree, two of the required courses--besides advanced calculus--were Probability Theory and Math 52, which was statistics. Although probability was a course I was looking forward to, given my penchant for numbers and games of chance, I quickly learned that this theoretical math course was no walk in the park. This notwithstanding, it was in this course that I learned about the birthd
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