Clik here to view.
Percents: Key Concepts and Connections
[Rescued from my old blog.] Paraphrased from a homeschool math discussion forum: “I am really struggling with percents right now, and feel I am in way over my head!” Percents are one of the math...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Percents: The Search for 100%
[Rescued from my old blog.] Percents are one of the math monsters, the toughest topics of elementary and junior high school arithmetic. The most important step in solving any percent problem is to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quotations XIII: Mathematics Education Is Much More Complicated than You...
Registrations have been rolling in for our homeschool co-op, and the most popular classes are full already. Math doesn’t seem to be a “most popular” class. I can’t imagine why! Still, many of my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trouble with Percents
Can your students solve this problem? There are 20% more girls than boys in the senior class. What percent of the seniors are girls? This is from a discussion of the semantics of percent problems and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reading to Learn Math
[Photo by Betsssssy.] Do you ever take your kids’ math tests? It helps me remember what it is like to be a student. I push myself to work quickly, trying to finish in about 1/3 the allotted time, to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Probability Issue: Hints and Answers
Remember the Math Adventurer’s Rule: Figure it out for yourself! Whenever I give a problem in an Alexandria Jones story, I will try to post the answer soon afterward. But don’t peek! If I tell you the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FREE Math Mammoth Percent
Wow! CurrClick’s weekly freebie for August 12-16 is Maria Miller’s Math Mammoth Percent workbook in pdf. Update: Maria just posted the workbook for free on her blog, too. Good until August 18th. The...
View Article
