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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
There are ways to pass math, and there are ways to fail math.
Failing math is easy. Just handing up a blank math paper will surely results in failure outright.
But how to fail math gracefully without submitting a blank paper?
Here 4 sure ways are proposed (from compilation of past experiences).
Way ONE:
Ignore ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Maths educationis basically divided into two parts or levels. The fundamental and the advance parts.
In the fundamental part of maths education, learners pick up the principles or concepts of the maths and the "tips" in solving some standard maths questions.
Here steps are shown to the learners and is the part ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
I discovered that math phobia is so recognized that it warrants a name (term) for it.
I found two phobia terms while reading up on math education. Allow me to share it here.
The term for fearing numbers: Arithmophobia.
People having this phobia, hopefully, can gain control of themselves over facing numbers as ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
In this post, allow me to deviate from my norm to say a few words.
From the many comments that came in recently, I came to realise that through sharing ideas about math in my blog, I am able to reach more audience than I could possibility have in a classroom. The ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I often hear people impulsive saying "I hate Maths". Is it true that maths is so fearful that it make one hate it? Come to think about it, if one day there is no more things related to maths, what will our life be?
Going inside the elevator, you see buttons imprinted with ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Roman numerals are written differently from the other number systems.
It represents number with letters (X, I, L, etc).
Example:
One = I
Two = II
Nine = IX
Twelve = XII
Twenty-two = XXII
However, in the current era of maths computation, we have chosen to use the Hindu-Arabic ways of number presentation. This is now the ...
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