Divide By Zero

We’re doing percents of in Pre-Algebra tomorrow. For a good high impact visual review I think this will be helpful to project up onto the board. I am good at making geogebra manipulatives, but I still stink at what you do with ‘em once they’re up on the board. Dan mentioned his trouble in using [...]

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How do you get kids to be good at estimating? How do you get them to make appropriate conclusions from fractions, decimals, and percents? My theory right now begins with some basic memorization. So I’m having all my Pre-Algebra students memorize all the fractions with denominators up to 10. Including the sevenths – which they [...]

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