Sunday, 6 December 2009

Tools for Kids and Best Educational Websites

23 Best Educational Websites and Tools for Kids



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Undeniable Internet has turned into one of the space for kids to learn and grow. Parent can easily find some useful tools on Internet to educate their kids in a simple and attractive way.

Most of the education websites offers kids a safe environment to discover their abilities and learn new skills with interactive and fun computer games.

We’ve filtered and collected 23 best education websites and tools for kids on this week and they’re all FREE. Details next!

1. Coolmath-Games
Coolmath was designed for the frustrated, the confused, the bored students of the world who hate math. Coolmath was designed for the students who just need to get through this stuff so they can reach their other academic goals.

2. FunBrain
FunBrain is the Internet’s premier location for interactive, educational games (math, grammar, science) for children and kids of all ages.

3. Apples 4 The Teacher
Apples 4 The Teacher includes interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools by subject (creative arts, foreign languages, language arts, math, science, social studies), articles, literacy coloring pages and more.

4. Kid Sites
Your guide to the best kid sites on the web.

5. BBC Learning School
The BBC is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. Its mission is to enrich people’s lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain.

6. Natural History Museum
Make a volcanic explosion, collect evidence against a cunning thief or find out whether you are more like a Diplodocus or a Tyrannosaurus. There’s much more in the fun and games below and you can download wallpapers and screensavers for your computer too.

7. Tate Kids



8. PBS KIDS
A safe place for kids to explore and play hundreds of fun educational games with their favorite PBS KIDS characters.

9. SFS Kids
This website, in conjunction with SFS Kids live performances, provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music.



10. National Geographic Kids



11. Adrian Bruce
Free Educational Resources of Adrian Bruce – Reading Games-Educational Software,Math Games-Motivational Posters & much, much more.


12. The Color
You can save your interactive online coloring pages that you have created in your gallery, print the coloring pages to your printer, or email them to friends and family. These coloring pages are fun and they also help children develop important skills.


13. Class Tools
Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!


14. Ask Kids
Ask Kids is a search engine designed exclusively for young people ages 6 to 12. It’s a free, safe, fun way for kids and their parents to quickly and easily research school topics like science, math, geography, language arts, and history in a search environment that’s safer and more age-appropriate than traditional, adult search engines.


15. Edbydesign
Education by Design has been online since 1997 providing educational resources and fun activities for kids of all abilities.



16. EcoKids
EcoKids is a free, environmental education program that offers curriculum-linked materials and activities for Canadian elementary schools to engage in environmental action.




17. Kids Know It
Kids Know It is making education fun and free. Free educational Websites For the young, and the young at heart.



18. NeoK12
The best selection of FREE online educational videos and lessons from all over the Internet.


19. Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software designs educational software and online games with these goals: 1) To add sound and visual effects to make learning fun and more memorable. 2) To design games with many difficulty levels so that players will continue to be challenged no matter how far they progress. 3) To provide games that will exercise players’ brains.



20. Fun-Educational-Games
Discover how fun educational video games on Nintendo or PC can help improve problem solving, logic, maths, memory, attention spam, reading .



21. Quiz-Tree
At Quiz-Tree.com you will find educational games and quizzes on many subjects, including Math, Reading, Spanish, Geography, SAT, Spelling, Music and more.


22. KIDiddles
KIDiddles offers Free Song Sheets, Activity Sheets and Music Sheet for kids!



23. Watch Know
WatchKnow is both a resource for users and also a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos.



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Thursday, 19 November 2009

do your math worksheet to see the beauty of math



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Pattern and beauty in mathematics and music


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The Math Behind the Beauty

By M. Bourne

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What has mathematics got to do with beauty? Actually, a lot. Physical attraction depends on ratio.

Our attraction to another person's body increases if that body is symmetrical and in proportion. Likewise, if a face is in proportion, we are more likely to notice it and find it beautiful. Scientists believe that we perceive proportional bodies to be more healthy.



Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the human body emphasised its proportion. The ratio of the following distances is the Golden Ratio:

(foot to navel) : (navel to head)
Similarly, buildings are more attractive if the proportions used follow the Golden Ratio.





The Golden Ratio (or "Golden Section") is based on Fibonacci Numbers, where every number in the sequence (after the second) is the sum of the previous 2 numbers:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...

We will see (below) how the Fibonnaci Numbers lead to the Golden Ratio:

Φ = 1.618 033 ...


In this Flash activity, you can check out the "mathematical beauty" (or not) of some famous people.

Choose a mask, depending on whether the person is smiling or not, and line up the mask with the photo, using the sliders.

You can change the colour of the mask for better viewing.



Let's look at the ratio of each number in the Fibonacci sequence to the one before it:

1/1 = 1

2/1 = 2

3/2 = 1.5

5/3 = 1.666...

8/5 = 1.6

13/8 = 1.625

21/13 = 1.61538...

34/21 = 1.61905...

55/34 = 1.61764...

89/55 = 1.61861...


If we keep going, we produce an interesting number which mathematicians call "phi" (Golden Ratio or Golden Section):

Φ = 1.618 033 988 7...

This ratio was used by architects and artists throughout history to produce objects of great beauty (like Michelangelo's "David" and the Greek temples.)



Phi (Φ) is like pi (π) in the sense that it is an irrational number. There is no equivalent fraction for Φ and its decimal keeps going and never stops.


Sunflower (Image source)
The Golden Ratio also occurs in nature, in the patterns we see in sunflowers, pine cones and so on. This is largely because one of the best ways to efficiently pack things tightly together is using the Fibonacci sequence.

Meet the Mathematicians

Meet the Mathematicians



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The Greatest Mathematicians of All Time - A Tribute







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Isaac Newton elaborated many of Galileo's physics and astronomy theories by appliying the techniques of calculus. The most elaborated thesis from Newton I find would be "Naturalis Principia Mathematica" which had shown his ideas on inverse square law, geometrical intepretation of motion and etc.



The best mathematician I find is Leonard Euler. His book written in 1748 "Introdutio in analysin infinitorum" shown methods in beautiful mathematical equations like his famous e^iπ = -1 and finding the real value of i^i.

Friday, 16 October 2009

Visual math


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Visual Math Worksheets Maker- This tool can be used to create fantastic visual math worksheets for young learners. This tool is helpful for early elementary students as well as upper elementary students in need of remediation.



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We offer 100s of problem types. Customize each sheet by choosing the font size, use of negative numbers, number of decimal places, minimum and maximum numbers. Answer keys are also created to make it even easier!

Join the club now to access all our Math Makers instantly. View our Math Makers by clicking on the items below.

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Generate your own elementary math worksheets here. You may submit your answers and have your worksheets scored, or print them out and work on paper.




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Generate your own elementary math worksheets here. You may submit your answers and have your worksheets scored, or print them out and work on paper.

Thursday, 10 September 2009

your own free math worksheet - ANOTHER site




Another source to create your own free math worksheet

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this is a simple sample

for Add and range between 1 and 30..............

your own math worksheet


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the best is its yours free math worksheet....


Math problems

This page is used to construct a set of simple arithmetic problems. You can choose the number of problems presented, as well as the types of questions asked. Fill in all of the boxes and then hit the Submit button to generate the problems. Once generated you can print the sheet out for work offline, or you can answer the problems on the computer and have the results graded.

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Monday, 7 September 2009

free math worksheet

I like sites that make teaching easier and create more time for the classroom instructor, but worksheets need to go away. Besides there are many free sites:
http://www.math-drills.com/
http://www.freemathworksheets.net/
http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/

The above list is just a sampling of freebies. for the free math worksheet.

How important is Math Worksheet Creator?

How important is Math Worksheet Creator?


The answer ties to the question: how important is basic math skills?

Although US students have made progress in some areas of math, when it comes to basic arithmetic—in particular, the ability to compute— progress has ground to a halt. Our students are very much behind many other countries, such as Japan and Singapore and many others.

Some people argue that students do not need to learn how to compute now that calculators are widely available. Visit any university, you will find, math, computing and engineering departments are dominated by foreign students. It is very sad to see many of our students fail in math and lose the opportunities to pursue these careers.

Are basic math skills still important? We can continue arguing the subject, however, in my opinion, if students don’t master basic math skills, they lose their edge to accomplish in advanced math topics.

Free Printable Worksheets






Generate your own elementary math worksheets here. You may submit your answers and have your worksheets scored, or print them out and work on paper.

http://www.noetic-learning.com/mathdrill/index.jsp

Recommended Pre-made Math Worksheets for: Second-grade , Third-grade, Fourth-grade, Fifth-grade



Produced by Li Kelty, a mother of two and former software designer, this site offers great free tools for creating math worksheets, which can be used (and scored) right online, or printed and completed by hand. Membership is very reasonable at $9.95 per year (there’s a free trial for educators).

So here’s my question: what role do worksheets play in today’s elementary classroom? I teach in a computer lab, so I honestly don’t know. Worksheets certainly don’t engage students the way other kinds of learning does. But I know they’re not devoid of value and are used throughout schools. Share your thoughts in the comments!

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Thursday, 3 September 2009

Anyone w/ a graphing calculator?

Looking for a graphing calculator?

GCalc - Java Online Graphing Calculator
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Sunday, 30 August 2009

Math Teachers are not being taught math adequately

Math Teachers are not being taught math adequately



Apparently the National Council on Teacher Quality has done a comprehensive study to come to the conclusion that everyone who is not an “expert” has known for years: Teachers are not being taught math adequately, and generally fail to teach it well to their students. (Do tell…)

Isn’t it funny that the “establishment” will never admit that? It takes an expensive academic “study” to show what is already known, yet Universities (in general) will not do anything about the way they teach teacher how to teach math. They will try some new, expensive methods that some textbook company has lobbied for, of course. But they won’t try anything that might actually work.

That’s why homeschooling and afterschooling are becoming more and more important. Taking an interest in your own child’s education is more important than ever, as public schools tank in their ability to actually teach, thanks to the natural entropy of society, and the idiotically simple-minded ways some people like to deal with it, as with the subtly(?) sardonically named “No Child Left Behind” act.

According to the AP article:

Author Julie Greenberg said education students should be taking courses that give them a deeper understanding of arithmetic and multiplication. She said the courses should explain how math concepts build upon each other and why certain ideas need to be emphasized in the classroom.
Teacher candidates know their multiplication tables, but “they don’t come to us knowing why multiplication works the way it does,” said Denise Mewborn, who heads the University of Georgia department of math and science education.

This is the key to most of what every student needs to know – how multiplication works. Addition is almost intuitive. It is an extension of counting. Once you extend addition to multiplication, though, you need a good understanding of how the base ten system works, and the commutative, associative, and distributive laws. You don’t need to know the names of those laws, of course, but you need to understand how to use them in order to understand multiplication. You also need to know that multiplication is not just repeated addition – a misrepresentation that is prevalent in education. (I should know, I only recently “saw the light” about this.)

That’s the big issue. Just being able to recite multiplication tables is not actually being able to understand multiplication. And just going through the motions and repeating math steps that a teacher has “taught” you by show-and-tell methods, so you can prove that you can jump through the hoops for the big test at the end of the year usually does more damage to your understanding that anything.

So what is there to do about it? First, as a truly concerned parent or teacher, make sure you, yourself understand some of the nuances of multiplication. Like why when you multiply by a fraction, the product is smaller than the multiplicand. (Did I get you with that one? Leave a comment below requesting the Math Mojo take on that one, and I’ll cover it in a new post).

Second, make sure you have at least two ways of explaining to your students how multiplication works. Not just how to do it, but how it actually works. I’m working on a video series about this now. Send me a nudge (again, in a comment below) to make it a higher priority to get it done and available to you faster.

Third, make sure you have a way to assess if your child or students understand what you taught them. The assessment doesn’t have to be a test. Tests are more about beating kids over the head. Asking questions and asking to demonstrate, in a non-threatening way would be my first strategy. If you must beat someone over the head, start with someone in an administrative position.

Here’s one of the reasons why:

According to the AP article:

Since states oversee the preparation of the nation’s school teachers, the report recommends they set tougher coursework and testing standards.

Why is does the solution always involve browbeating the learners? Why are the words “tough” and “testing” so often involved? How on earth does that teach or inspire? The problem isn’t that, “those who can’t do, teach.” The people who run those studies and teach university level education courses usually can do the math they are supposed to teach quite well.

The problem is that “those that can’t teach, teach.” Then they “train” teachers, instead of teaching them. No wonder those teachers have problems teaching.

As I always say, look up when you look for where the problem lies. You can’t blame a third grader for not learning (unless there is neurological damage, of course). If it’s behavior problems, there might be an issue beyond the teacher’s scope, but most behavior problems are dealt with by good teachers.

But beyond those things, start looking up the chain for someone who needs the butt-kicking. If the teacher can’t teach, were they taught well? (Are they even allowed to teach well in that school?) If the teacher’s teacher can’t teach, were they taught well? Is their administrator constantly putting monkey-wrenches in their teaching techniques? Is something going on at the School Board mucking up the school? Is the State requiring more tests, but providing less resources for teachers and students?

Keep looking up. Here’s a hint: Besides the handicapped, who’s got the parking spot closest to the school entrance? Start with him/her.
Remember, when things are looking bad, begin to look up.


Brian (a.k.a. Professor Homunculus)

Math facts vs. Math concepts

Math facts vs. Math concepts

There are MANY kids like this out there. Dyscalculia is another LD that is little known and commonly misunderstood. Though like most "definitions" - our kids don't fit the cookie cutter stereotype. Symptoms, causality, descriptions will vary.

What seems truly common is the "inability" with Math Facts and the "ability" to practically intuit higher level math concepts. It also seems - to me - to be a tad more common amongst kids who are also dysgraphic. Also amongst "visual spatial" thinkers (which is also seems tied to dysgraphia - hmmmm...... anyways)

For my son - and quite a number of other kids I know - in person or via parent/cyberspace - the "solution" is NOT drill drill drill (an anathema to these kids!), but to just stop worrying about it, let them go on to more challenging math problems. They will have to USE computational skills to solve them but they will also be getting the mental challenge/stimulus they NEED.

For many, letting them use a grid or (in our case) a calculator - to SOLVE the problems is perfectly fine! What happened (s) is: they get the PICTURE they need to retrieve quickly (you know they know and understand the concept - because they constantly refigure - so the PICTURE is ok here). And - over time, you see them access the calculator/chart less and less.

Do NOT "hold them back" for silly things like math facts. (Do you stop your kid from reading more interesting books because they can't spell??) It will make them bored and resentful, and they will come to HATE MATH and question that wonderfully intuitive skill they have.

And for (whatever diety you wish)'s sake - DO NOT GIVE THEM TIMED TESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This will only increase TEST ANXIETY which can - and does (BTDT) - spill over into every OTHER test they ever take.

FWIW - Timed "math facts" tests were a large part of what drove my son out of PS. The teacher knew he "knew" them, but he absolutely could not - between dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and test anxiety - legibly complete the test in the time alloted!

As my son has advanced to more complex Algebraic problems, he's figured out that he HAS to "show his work" (aaaggh!) in order to work through the problems. He also has to "proof" his work (so he's doing mostly self-checking.) He still wants the calculator there, but he doesn't use it very often for basic calculations.

Although, on his recent yearly test (we do ours in January) - he again - scored about 50% on Math Calculations and 99% on Math Concepts. Even though they were basically the "same problems" - whereas the Math Calc problem was "just numbers" - and the Math Concept problem was buried in a "word problem".

http://www.dyscalculia.org /

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By definition, math must be UNDERSTOOD. It CANNOT be memorized. Memorizing is not math. Memorization is a surface-level, short-term memory task. Math involves deep thinking and understanding - real brain work - and your 7-yo may or may not be ready to do it.

Math is not about memorizing algorithms or facts. It's about understanding the reality that the world is made of numbers.

Really. I am deadly serious about this. My kids are all really, really good at math, at least according to their standardized test scores, and none of them have ever once cracked a math book or a flashcard (and Mr. Unschooler and I both suck at math, so there is no inherited talent at work). And, yes, they can answer quickly if you ask them one of those "math facts" questions such as what is 7 times 8. The great thing is that if they forget what 7 times 8 is, it's not big deal, because they can very quickly and easily figure out a strategy to solve the problem.

100% of our arithmetic consisted either of figuring out "real world" problems (how many giraffes would you have to stack up to reach the top of mommy's office building? how would you go about doubling that recipe?) or in math games we invent. To learn times tables, we did a lot of counting by tens, fives, sevens, eights, elevens and so on. To learn division, we played a game where we imagined there were a set number of cookies to be divided amont a set number of children, with the leftovers (remainder) going to the dog. We also figure out the area of all kinds of things. Another favorite is the "number machine" wherein one person puts a number into the "machine" (the other player), which spits back an answer. The first person continues to "insert" numbers into the "machine" until he can figure out what the machine did to the "input" number in order to generate the "output" (the machine can do something as simple as adding one or two or as complicated as algebra).

Sometimes, I'll throw out a problem for one of the kids and let them think about it for minutes, hours or days. There's no rush. I'd rather they think deeply about it and figure out a way to solve the problem than memorize an algorithm and not understand what they are doing.

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has embraced a pedgagogical approach based on deep understanding of numbers rather than memorization of facts. I'd encourage you to look at their ideas and also those in John Holt's excellent book "Learning All the Time."

Sunday, 23 August 2009

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interior angle of a regular n-gon

in general, the measure of an interior angle of a regular n-gon is




The sum of the measures of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees.

Since all the sides of equilateral triangles are the same length, all the angles are the same...




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Measuring Interior Angles of a Polygon

Step 1

Determine whether the polygon you are working with is regular or irregular.A regular polygon is a polygon whose sides and angles are all of the same measure, all other polygons are irregular.

Step 2

Use the equation 180*(n-2), if you are dealing with a regular polygon, where n is the number of sides that the polygon has, to determine the sum of the interior angles of the polygon. Then to determine the measurement of the interior angles of that regular polygon you would simply divide the sum of the interior angles by n, since that is the number of sides and angles of the regular polygon. The resulting number will be the measurement of all the interior angles of that polygon.

Step 3

Use the measurements provided for you, if you are working with an irregular polygon. If the interior angle measurements aren't provided for you then you can use a protractor to determine the measurements of the interior angles.
Calculating the Sum of the Exterior Angles of a Polygon

Step 1

Subtract the measurement of each interior angle from 180 to get the measurement of the corresponding exterior angle.If you were to draw a continuous straight line off of each side of the polygon then you would be able to see not only the interior angles but also the exterior angles. We know that a straight line as a measurement of 180 degrees, so, if you subtract the measurement of the interior angle from 180 (the total degrees of the straight line) then what you are left with is the measurement of the exterior angle. In math terms, exterior and interior angles are supplementary to each other.This is the procedure that you follow for both regular and irregular polygons.

Step 2

Add the measurements of all the exterior angles together to get the sum of the exterior angles of the polygon.You should get 360 degrees because that is the sum of the exterior angles of all polygons.

Step 3

Use the knowledge that the sum of the exterior angles of any polygon is always going to 360 degrees to make finding the measurements of the exterior angles of a polygon easier next time around.

Step 4

Determine the measurement of its exterior angles by dividing 360 by the number of sides of the polygon when you are dealing with a regular polygon.

Step 5

Determine the measurement of a particular exterior angle, if you have the measurements of all the other exterior angles, by adding up the measurements off all the other exterior angles and then subtracting that number from 360 when dealing with an irregular polygon.

Friday, 21 August 2009

Graphing y = mx + b

Date: 01/20/97 at 10:58:13
From: Larry Shirley
Subject: x and y intercepts and graph

Dear Dr. Math,

I am having trouble understanding 3x + 2y = 5. This has to be in
y = mx + b form. After I get it in the proper form, how do I graph
it?

Sarah

Date: 01/20/97 at 11:59:07
From: Doctor Lisa
Subject: Re: x and y intercepts and graph

Hi Sarah!

Let's take a look at your question step by step. The first thing you
told me is that you need to get the equation into y = mx + b form.
So, to begin, you will work on solving this equation for y. As you
may recall, what that means is that you want to manipulate the
equation so you get y by itself on one side of the equation. This is
the process I would use:

3x + 2y = 5
2y = -3x + 5 (subtract 3x from each side to get 2y by itself)
y = -3/2x + 5/2 (divide both sides by 2 to get y by itself)

Now that I have the equation in the proper form, we're ready to
graph it.

Remember that y = mx + b is called "slope-intercept form." If you
have an equation in this form (and written with the x-term first and
the constant second), you will have the slope and the y-intercept for
the graph. The slope is "m" (the coefficient of x) and is the rise
over the run (or the change in y over the change in x). The
y-intercept is "b" and is where the graph crosses the y-axis.

In this problem, m = -3/2 and b = 5/2. I would first locate the
y-intercept on the graph. Since b = 5/2, I would find where 5/2 (or
2 1/2) is on the y-axis and make a point. This is where the graph
crosses the y-axis.

From there, I would use the slope to find other points on the graph.
When using slope, we first travel in the y direction and then move in
the x direction. Keep in mind that a positive y direction is up, a
negative y direction is down, a positive x direction is right, and a
negative x direction is left. When you have a positive slope, you
will either use a positive y and positive x movement or a negative y
and negative x direction. This is because a positive number divided by
a positive number is still positive and a negative number divided by a
negative number is also positive. Since we have a negative slope, we
need one positive number and one negative number.

** As I am describing the graphing process below, I am assuming
that you are using graph paper. This process will work with any scale
on the graph (1 square could equal 2 units or 10 units, etc.). **

Our slope is -3/2. This means I can do one of two things: either go
up 3 squares (positive direction) and left 2 squares (negative
direction) or go down 3 squares (negative direction) and right 2
squares (positive direction). Be careful with this problem because
you are beginning with a fraction (the 5/2 from above) - you'll have
to either estimate where halfway is or make each mark equal to 1/2 (in
other words, 2 marks on the graph = 1 unit).

Go to the 5/2 you marked earlier. You can go up 3 squares from the
5/2 and then move over left 2 squares and make your next point. You
can also go down 3 squares from the 5/2 and then move over right 2
squares and make your next point. If you do both of those operations,
you will have 3 points and can connect the dots to make a line. You
can count out as many points as you need to make the line, but I
suggest a minimum of 3 points for accuracy (although some teachers
want you to use 5 points). The more points you have, the more
accurate the line will appear on your graph.

I hope I clearly answered your question for you and that this will
help you do other problems similar to it. Have a great day!

-Doctor Lisa, The Math Forum
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Thursday, 20 August 2009

My kid hates math

What to Do When Your Child Hates Math

The dislike for math is widespread among school going kids. You will often come across comments like 'math is very boring', 'I don't like math' or 'math has no use in real life'. Parents find it difficult to help their child when he or she hates math. However, a little effort on the part of the parents can make math fun their child. Understand the real problem of your child and then use various interesting activities or teaching methods to generate interest for math in your child.

Most kids do not like math because as a culture we have trouble bringing math to life. The majority of Teachers teach the subject as they were taught and the system is in an endless spiral of repeated practices.

You can make it an interesting subject by assigning math tasks to your child. Since you know better than the school teacher what are the likes and dislikes of your child, you can teach your child math by the activities he likes. For example, you can give him candies to distribute among your family members. Tell him how he can divide the total number of candies so that each member gets an equal amount. You can take him to shop with you and give him the task to add the total price of things you have bought. You can teach proportion to your child by assigning him the task to collect the ingredients of a recipe. This will teach him proportions. And after your child masters these basic concepts you can assign him more complicated tasks. But always remember to help your child if he finds any difficulty in completing the task.

Children hold the view that math has no role to perform in real life. Kids need to understand that math is all around them, in their bicycles, paintings or houses. The problem is that they can learn how to ride a bicycle without studying math. These types of questions generate a general disliking for math in schools. You can reduce this problem by making math a subject used in every day life. Take examples from the routine life of your child to teach him addition multiplication or fragmentation. Tell him in which activities math plays a very important role and how math can make their life better. Your child will start taking interest in math because he becomes familiar with the every day usage of math.

Your interest in the study and homework of your child can generate liking for math in your child. Cooperate with him in his math homework. Make a regular routine for your child and monitor his television and playing hours. Your child can actually learn many basic math concepts while watching television or playing various games, if you participate in these activities. You have to avoid all distractions when your child in doing his math's homework. Make all things like pencils or a ruler available to your child when he starts his homework.

If you cannot manage it yourself, then hire a good tutor for your child. A good tutor can make math a fun for your kid. He can give proper attention to your child and foster interest for math. The use of innovative methods to teach math also helps a child to take interest in the subject. In fact this is the biggest problem that generates hatred for math among school going children. The teachers focus more attention on removing the mistakes than encouraging innovativeness in the students. This practice detracts students and math becomes a boring subject for them. If teachers use various interesting methods like using animal images or candies to teach basic concepts like division, addition, multiplication, better results can be achieved.

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I Want My Kids to Love Math

I Want My Kids to Love Math but how????

Mathematics can be a fascinating subject. Once kids start liking it, the chances are they are going to spends hours solving math problems on their own. They will simply, enjoy mathematics and try to learn more about algebra and arithmetic. Watching your kids getting better in mathematics can be a worthwhile experience. After all, math is required to excel in any well respected professions. If your child is good in math then he can choose to become an economist, attorney or an engineer. However, if your child is having problems with math or you want him to love mathematics, you can follow these tips:

You can create a story that involves math puzzles which can be solved by your kids. For example you can use the story of the three little pigs to create mathematical problems. A good question can be: Once upon a time there were three little pigs, ages 3, 7 and 9. Are these ages in even or odd numbers? Another good question can be: pig number 1 wanted to create a house from straws, a bundle of straws cost $3. He needs four bundles of straws. How much will he spend?

One of the great ways of developing your kid's interest in math is through supplemental math books. Try buying books that are interesting to read, so that your child is motivated to solve math problems. Children often like books that have picture puzzles or their favorite cartoon characters in them. They can help your child in improving his mathematics skills.

Provide a positive learning environment to your children. If your child is stuck at any point, help him. Try reviewing problem areas to find out where he needs extra guidance. Communicate with the teacher on a frequent basis about your child's performance. Let the teacher know where your child is facing difficulties, so that he or she provides him the needed assistance. Your child will do much better in math if you make him practice math exercises on regular basis.

Most children start disliking math because their homework exercises are too difficult. If you want your child to love mathematics then you should help him in his homework. When he is finished with his assignment, you should check it for any mistakes. Most of the time children do the proper working but they make mistakes while doing calculations. If that's the case, then give credit to your child for the proper working and make him practice arithmetic calculations. However, if your child tends to do mistakes in working, then carefully guide him about the proper method. Tell him the basic concepts behind procedures. Math is about concepts rather then rote learning. If you are unsure about a certain problem, then tell the teacher to help your child in doing it.

You can make math easier for your kids by making them learn multiplication tables. This will make the multiplication exercises easier for them. A good way to do that is by using real life examples, so that your child develops a liking and basic understanding for mathematics. For example, ask your child to multiply the number of chairs to the tables in the classroom.

You can increase your child's interest in mathematics by telling him its importance in daily life. Children can be taught how to compare prices of the same goods in different weights. You can teach them about getting the correct change when they shop for goods. Involving them in a gardening project is an effective way of increasing their fondness for math. Simply, teach them how much fertilizer they need to purchase for a lawn. Other things that you can teach them include how much paint they need to paint various rooms in the house. Most of the highly sought after jobs require math. Tell them that the job of engineer, financial advisor and stockbroker all require good skills in mathematics.

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Calculating Volumes in Math

Calculating Volumes in Math


volume of a cylinder:

To calculate the volume of a cylinder we need to know the radius of the circular cross-section of the cylinder - this is the measurement from the centre of the circle, to the outer-edge. Enter this in field marked RADIUS below. Then measure the height and enter in the field marked HEIGHT below.

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volume of a cube:

Heres is a calculator that calculates the volume of a cube.

Width X Length X Height

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Volume of a Cuboid

Volume of a cuboid = a × b × c = a b c
where a, b and c are the lengths of the sides of the cuboid.

do exercise here

volume of a cone :

Heres is a calculator that calculates the volume of a cone.


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Tuesday, 11 August 2009

The Eight Table in Mathematics

The Eight Table in Mathematics




The Eight Table in Mathematics

The 8s table is completely different from the 6s and 7s, but just as easy to learn. Read the entire method before you teach it, because it can be taught either with or without the "8 X 1" math fact.

Let's multiply 8 X 1 as an example.

Tell the student that 8 X 1 is ZERO tens and 8 ones. Explain that if you have your hands in the position shown in Fig. 11, that the thumbs can't reach across the space to touch each other, so that's where we get the zero tens from. This becomes clear as we move through the 8s table.

See Fig. 11:

To multiply 8 X 2, the student places the index, or 2nd fingers (as in the "2" of 8 X 2) together. Not counting the thumbs, the attached index fingers signify one set of 10 and the fingers below are the 1s, which in this case are 6 ones.

See Fig.12:


Going on, to multiply 8 X 3, the student simply places his/her middle fingers together like last time, so now we have two sets of attached fingers ( or 2 sets of 10), the index and middle finger pairs. So, that means there are two 10s, and the remaining "loose" fingers are the ones, which in this case are 4 ones.

See Fig. 13:

8 X 4 would entail joining the ring fingers together (along with the index and middle joined pairs, of course), to have a total of 3 pairs of joined fingers, and the pinkies left over, so you would have 3 tens and 2 ones.

Now.....

When you get to 8 X 5, notice that all the fingers are attached to their mates, so you have four 10s and zero 1s. See Fig. 14:

To continue the pattern, tell the student that since you've run out of fingers, you're going to "reload" by giving the "40" to the thumbs. Thus, 8 X 6 is four tens (remember, the thumbs now have the job of being "40") and 8 ones as in Fig. 15:

To help with the switch from 8 X 5 to 8 X 6, have the student start in the 8 X 5 position and slowly bring the thumbs together. When they touch, release the fingers. Then slowly raise the fingers overhead as in Fig. 15.

Thus, 40 is displayed EITHER as 4 sets of joined fingers OR as a pair of thumbs. The only time when BOTH are displayed is when computing the answer to 8 X 10.

8 X 7 is simply a matter of adding a set of ten to the forty that's contained in the thumbs, and thus you have FIVE 10s and the six remaining "loose" fingers to get 56, and so on.

See Fig. 16:

If the student is aware that any number multiplied by one yields a product of the same number, you can more than likely skip the "8 X 1" step. I have included it here because some students are very literal about mathematics, and appreciate seeing the pattern presented from the outset. Use your own judgment.

Also, you can remind the student that the "loose" fingers are below the thumbs for 8 X 1,2,3,4,5 and above the thumbs for 8 X 6,7,8,9,10. For younger students, the following rhyme seems to help:

"The THUMBS become forty, AFTER 5 X 8
8 fingers OVER forty, 8 X 6 is 48"

John F. Gould
(c) 2000 all rights reserved


or for visual and use right brain....






Thursday, 6 August 2009

Multiplication tables 9

my mum teach Multiplication tables 9 to me when i am a kid.


use your finger and close one finger at a time.

start on the left hand

you will get 9. which is 9X1.

then close the next finger, you will see 1 finger and other 8.

this is 18 = 9 x2.

repeat with another finger you will get 27 = 9 x 3.

repeat with another finger you will get 36 = 9 x 4.

repeat with another finger you will get 45 = 9 x 5.

repeat with another finger you will get 54 = 9 x 6.

repeat with another finger you will get 65 = 9 x 7.

repeat with another finger you will get 72 = 9 x 8.

repeat with another finger you will get 81 = 9 x 9.

repeat with another finger you will get 90 = 9 x 10.

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interestingly my son teach me just write 0 to 9
downwards and write 9 to 0 upwards next to the number...

you will get first :-

0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

then add another number but remember 9 to 0 upwards get this result:

09
18
27
36
45
54
63
72
81
90

this is multiplication of 9. i teach to my 6 years old and the result is brilliant.

Thursday, 16 July 2009

Teach Multiplication Tables to Children

Multiplication tables are a fundamental building block of math. At all costs, the best way to give your kid the confidence they need in math, is to make sure they understand the basics of multiplication. The basic multiplication table starts at 1 x 1 and proceeds to 12 X 12. Teach a kid these tables until they know them cold and you will have done your child the greatest favor you will bestow on their educational endeavors. While very few of us use calculus, most of us use algebra and multiplication on a regular basis. Indeed, if we eat out at a restaurant, we unwittingly use multiplication tables. We figure out the square footage of rooms with multiplication. If you stop to think about it, no matter what you do, math is a regular part of your life. Multiplication tables are important. Here are some very simple tricks for teaching your kids how to multiply.


Step 1

Teach your child the tricks. If a kid knows the tricks of multiplication, he will find the process of memorization comes naturally. For example, show him that up to 10 multipliers, the number 11 goes up in identical twin digits… 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88 and 99. Teach him that 11 times a two digit number can be found by separating the multiplier and adding it in the center. For example, 11 X 23 would be separated as 2 space 3 and then the 2 and three would be added together in the center to get the final answer of 253. In cases where the center digit is more than 10, then the first of the two digits gets added to the front digit and the other sits beside the digit to the right. For example, 11X 96 would be 9 space 6. Then add the 9 and the 6 to get 15. Add 1 to the 9 to get 10 and leave the 5 and place the 6 to get 1056. To get to 4 times anything, double it and then double it again.

Step 2

Play multiplication games with your kid. For example, if you have two kids learning multiplication at the same time, pull out a deck of cards, pull the face cards and jokers out, and then grab two cards. Whichever kid multiplies the two numbers correctly the fastest gets both cards. Proceed through the deck. At the end, the kid with the most cards wins. This is an especially useful trick for teaching kids who are competitive. Use it.

Step 3

Establish a reward system for correct answers. You will want to tailor the reward to the individual child. Some kids are happy to get a bouncy rubber wall. Others will require more. Choose accordingly. Consider saying, “I have a chocolate bar for a kid who can tell me the answer to 9 x 7. What’s the answer?” Rewards are tremendous learning tools.

Step 4

Do repetition drills. Repetition is the surest way to ingrain multiplication tables into your child's brain. the basic rule of thumb is that if your kids aren't sighing the answers, frustrated because "duh, I already know that one", then the kid doesn't know their tables well enough yet. You can use repetition at any point. Use it in the car, "Quick what's 7X9?". Use it when they are briushing the teeth, and get the garbled answer. Use it before you pass the mashed potatoes. "Well only kids who can tell me what 6 x 3 is get to eat mashed potatoes. Do you know?" Kids learn through on the spot repetition. Keep this tool in your arsenal.

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How Do I Teach Multiplication to Kids?

How Do I Teach Multiplication to Kids?

Teaching multiplication to kids can be less challenging when you relate it to a skill they already have, such as addition. Because multiplication is essentially a sped-up version of addition, there are many techniques you can use. Here are some ideas that have worked for elementary math teachers:

* Use pictures to represent sample problems. Many students are able to visualize approximate answers before finding the correct solution.
* Experiment with manipulatives, such as counting blocks, candy, beads and old ticket stubs.
* Create word or story problems that relate to your students' interests or daily life. Use actual student names to make it fun.
* Do not discourage memorization when it comes to the standard times table.
* Encourage speed in answering times tables. Competing against the clock can be fun for kids.
* Make sure your students are able to count by multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 before they move on to the more challenging multiples of 6, 7, 8 and 9. This helps you to avoid overwhelming your students.

a multiplication time table game

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Wednesday, 8 July 2009

How to Help Your Child Enjoy Math

How to Help Your Child Enjoy Math

Many students dread math. Parent's can help make their child's mathematics lessons more exciting and entertaining. Read on to learn more about how you can help your child enjoy math.

You can help your children learn to appreciate mathematics by providing them with assistance and fun activities that will help your students enjoy math. Tips to do this include the following:

* Help your kids use math every day
* Play family games that involve math
* Introduce logic games to your children
* Look into math tutoring programs.

Everyday Math Games

Make everyday tasks into games. For example, take your student grocery shopping with you and challenge them to add prices in their heads.

Challenge your child to find which brand or size of a product is the best value. This teaches them how to use money in math, a skill that will be important throughout their life.

Make sure the tasks are not too hard for the child, because this will be frustrating instead of effective. Instead, check to see what their weekly math homework involves and find a way to incorporate that into a trip to the grocery store.

Other everyday tasks that can be used include balancing a checking book and using time problems (how long did it take to complete this task, how long did it take yesterday, etc.) This sounds like a simple task but it will be effective if used regularly. Children will participate in these day to day games because they are fun, but will see the benefits as their homework becomes easier and they start to grasp the various math concepts.
Math Logic

There are various logic games that are available in books and magazines. These challenging puzzles are available in a variety of skill levels, so you can make sure the games will not be too hard for your child. Examples of logic games include crossword puzzles, number sequences, and logic grids. These activities can be done as a family, or your child can choose to do them alone.

These books and magazines are especially good for long car rides or traveling in trains and planes because it keeps your child concentrated on the puzzles instead of the long trip. What is great about the logic books and magazines is that there are answers and explanations in the back. This way, your child can see if they are correct and learn how to complete the challenge if they are stumped.
Math Related Board Games

Family game time is always a good idea because it creates a bonding time and a fun, comfortable atmosphere for your child to improve their math skills. Popular games that use math and logic include Yahtzee, chess, backgammon, checkers, Connect Four, and dominoes.
Math Tutoring

Math tutoring programs are also great tools for parents with struggling students. Even if your child is not struggling, a tutoring program could be useful in increasing their enjoyment of mathematics.

By using an online tutoring program, your child is being introduced to the possibilities of the Internet and may be encouraged to play the math games as well. The online math tutoring programs use assessment tests to see which math skills your child needs help with, and then create lesson plans that revolve around these skill gaps.

free math worksheet vs Free math teachers

free math worksheet vs Free math teachers
We have been discussing free math worksheet. Is there really free math teachers?


try and check here or

http://www.freemathhelp.com/math-real-world.html

well this site has a forum to discuss and hopefully can meet real math teachers here,

at http://www.freemathhelp.com/forum/


or you can go to this blog and ask her to help you....

http://homeschoolmath.blogspot.com/



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Friday, 26 June 2009

Worksheets and Math Practice

Daily Math Review
Three years’ worth of math review (7 assorted problems per day) for grades 6, 7, and 8 — with answers provided for the busy teacher.

Donna Young’s Math Pages
Worksheets, charts, drill pages, fraction manipulatives, triangular flashcards, and more — plus a great introduction to unit multipliers (also known as conversion factors).

Free Math Worksheets from HomeSchoolMath.net
A variety of worksheets from the author of the Math Mammoth books (and Homeschool Math Blog), with links at the bottom of the page for more freebies.

GetSmarter.org
Try your hand at math and science test questions, and then see how your answers compare to those from students around the world.

MathCounts Drills by Elias Saab
Tough online practice problems for MathCounts preparation, or simply to see if you can handle the challenge. Problems are also available one by one.

MathCounts Toolbox
This is a 9-page summary of the basic facts of elementary math. Go through each page, checking off all the things you know. Then try to learn at least one new math fact per week between now and test time.

Math Drills Homepage
Online mathematics tests and drills for many topics, elementary through university level.

Math Worksheet Generators
“Just the facts, ma’am.” Plenty of formatting choices.

Math Worksheet Site
My personal favorite online generator for basic math worksheets. They also offer a subscription service, if you need a wider choice of topics.

Multiflyer
Online or downloadable game for practicing the multiplication facts. This is the best math fact game I have seen, at a can’t-beat-it price.

Preparation Drills for the SAT-Math Sections
Quiz yourself online to prepare for high-stakes high school testing.

Triangular Numbers are Everywhere!
This worksheet from the IMSA Math Journal examines several examples of triangular numbers in mathematical problems. Can you figure out the patterns?


HomeschoolMath.net
Place value, adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing, fractions, and more.

Interactivate
Lots of projects to try, mostly at the elementary to middle-school level.

Introduction to Probability
A short tutorial with interactive questions from Mrs. Glosser’s Math Goodies. See also: Rolling a Pair of Dice, Conditional Probability, and the Challenge Exercises. And check out Combining Probabilities at MathCounts Central: When more than one thing is happening in a probability problem, how do you know whether to add the probabilities or multiply them? And what happens if the events are not mutually exclusive?

Math.com
Basic math, everyday math, and “hot subjects” like fractions and decimals.

Mathematics at Free-Ed.Net
Arithmetic and pre-algebra.

Problem Solving Strategies
Teach your students to solve problems—by solving problems!

Professor Pig’s Magic Math
Cartoons, hands-on games, and mental math practice — these pdf lessons are excellent to help students understand number bonds, rather than just memorizing math facts. (Only the first two lessons are available now; more coming soon.) See also: Math Games to Download.

Smartkiddies Math
A complete elementary math program developed by Australian teachers. [Edited to add: This used to be free. I just noticed that they now offer a 30-lesson free trial, but regular access is $50/year per family. It's a very reasonable price, but not as good a deal as it used to be!]

Suzanne’s Math Lessons
For upper-elementary and middle school.

The Singapore Maths Teacher
These slide shows demonstrate Singapore-style math models (also known as bar diagrams) step by step, beginning with relatively easy grade 3 word problems and working through to grade 6 stumpers. Excellent for elementary teachers who need to learn how to teach this method. See also: Problem Solving Strategies.

Why We Don’t Divide By Zero
Professor Homunculus of The Math Mojo Chronicles explains the mathematics of dividing by zero.



How to Teach Math to a Struggling Student

Please don’t tell your daughter she has to be either a math person or a language person. It is quite possible to be both. It sounds to me as though she has a very mathematical mind, if she is so good at strategy games and chess. Numbers are only a tiny part of math, even if they are the part that fills elementary textbooks. And if she can analyze a word problem, she is way ahead of many kids her age!

Since her problem shows up in adding and subtracting, it could be a couple of things. Perhaps she does not understand the concepts of putting things together or taking them away — but surely that is NOT true, because she does well with word problems and was doing well with the workbooks you used before. Maybe she loses track of the numbers, especially when she tries to count in her head. If she isn’t sure of her math facts, she probably gets flustered when she has to deal with larger numbers.

Here’s my best guess: I think your daughter’s problem is that she has not quite internalized the place value system. She knows it on a surface level, but she needs to know it down in her bones. This is a key to understanding more math than you would think at first glance.

First Steps to Recovery

  • Drop the Saxon textbook, if you have not already done so. That book carries too much emotional baggage at this point.
  • Go to the library and check out Family Math if they have it, or The I Hate Mathematics! Book or Math For Smarty Pants, for a more interesting approach to mathematical thinking. Order them through library loan if you have to. Play around with math for awhile before you attempt to do textbooky work again.
  • Meanwhile, pick up a cheap workbook for practicing with numbers, or try a few online worksheets from my math resource page.
  • Whenever you are ready to try another textbook — next school year, perhaps? — look for one that will focus on conceptual understanding and word problems. I like the Primary Math series, but as you found out before, what works for someone else will not necessarily work for your daughter. If you get a chance to attend a curriculum fair, you may want to take her with you to look around at all the possibilities. Once you decide which math program to try, be sure to use their placement test, so you start working at just the right level.

Learn Math by Playing Games

  • Because the number 10 is the foundation of our place value system, your daughter needs to work on the sums that make 10 until she knows them instantly. If you say “6″ she needs to be able to say “4″ right back at you. At her age, this won’t take long, but it is super-important.
  • Practice with a math card game like Tens Concentration.
  • Practice the math facts until she is confident, and then practice them some more. Try the game that is worth 1,000 worksheets.
  • Play some of the advanced games at the end of my number bonds article.

Practice Mental Math Skills

  • Talk about how the pairs that make 10 can help her with mental addition and subtraction. If she needs to add 5+8, she knows that:
    5 + 5 = 10
    and
    8 = 5 + 3
    So
    5 + 8 = 5 + 5 + 3 = 10 + 3 = 13
  • Or here is another way to look at the same problem. (There are many ways to approach any math problem!) To figure out 5+8, your daughter could ask herself, “How many more does 8 need to make 10?”
    8 + 5 = 8 + \left( 2 + 3 \right) = 10 + 3 = 13
  • If she needs to figure out 13-7, she can do it backwards:
    7 = 3 + 4
    So
    13 - 7 =  13 - \left(3 + 4 \right) = 10 - 4 = 6
    Be sure to notice that you are taking away the 3 and the 4, not taking away the 3 and then adding the 4!
  • It may help to use M&Ms or toothpicks to model the numbers, so she can move them around and find the 10. Practice this until she starts thinking in 10s and can immediately recognize them:
    6 + 7 = 10 + 3
    or
    5 + 9 = 10 + 4
    or
    17 - 8 = 10 - 1
    And so forth.
  • “Finding the 10″ may sound too simple for a student your daughter’s age, but this is the most important step, because our number system is set up in tens. In our base 10 place value system:
    50+90 = 5\;tens +9 \;tens = \left( 10 + 4 \right) \;tens
    and
    500+900 = 5 \; hundreds +9 \; hundreds = \left( 10 + 4 \right)  \; hundreds
    Etc.

Moving On to Bigger Numbers

  • Now use these same tricks to add or subtract some larger numbers, like her Yahtzee scores. Work in place value columns, but do it differently from what the textbook had her doing. No “carrying” allowed!
  • If she is going to add, say, 273+596, have her work from the bigger parts of the numbers to the smaller:
    273 + 596 = \left( 2 + 5 \right)  \; hundreds+ \left( 7 + 9 \right)  \; tens+ \left( 3 + 6 \right) \; ones
    That should give her 7 hundreds, 16 tens, and 9 ones. She can even write it that way, with the 16 in the tens place, as an interim step — have her write the numbers with a wide space between place value columns to allow for this. And then she can easily see that those 16 tens are the same as one more hundred plus 6 tens.
  • For subtraction, try the same sort of trick. The next time she needs to subtract something like 462-175, work from the big part to the small part. Start with the hundreds:
    4 \; hundreds - 1 \; hundred = 3 \; hundreds
    Does she understand that 3 hundreds and 6 tens is the same as 36 tens? Now she is ready to take away the 7 tens.
    36 \; tens - 7 \; tens = 36 - \left( 6 + 1 \right) = \left( 30 - 1 \right) \; tens = 29 \; tens
    Finally, take away the 5 ones.
    292 \; ones - 5 \; ones = 292 - \left( 2 + 3 \right) = 290 - 3 = 287
  • She can work in her head if she wants, but she will probably want to write down the numbers as she goes through the steps, at least until she gets used to working this way. The main thing is to give her a different approach from what the textbook did — no “borrowing”! — and set her free from those negative feelings about math.

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