The Math Guy

A Math(s) teacher from Yorkshire, now working in Ontario and always learning about how students best learn Math(s).

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Yohaku: A Different Type of Number Puzzle

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**Update: I have now created a website with these yohaku puzzles: http://www.yohaku.ca/ Like many folk, I'm a big fan of number puzzle...
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Measurement to the Fore

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I am sometimes concerned that our students' experience of Measurement consists primarily of memorising formulas and conversions at the e...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

The Subtle Art of Taking a Break

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There is, I believe, a common misconception that Maths is a subject which consists entirely of questions that need to be answered immediatel...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

A Concrete-Diagrammatic-Symbolic Development of Division

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It is no secret that students find division the most difficult of the four operations to understand. I don't just mean the procedure of...
Monday, November 30, 2015

How Many Eggs Does it Take to Make a 3-Egg Omelette?: Understanding the Problem

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One of the things that we are actively trying to do in our Board is to get our students to fall in love with problem solving. But how can we...
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