This is one of the most common mistakes students make when adding fractions: \[\frac34 + \frac67=\frac9{11}\] For a long time, I thought that students did this solely based on confusion with multiplication. While we teach addition of integers before multiplication, addition of fractions is a more complicated process. To multiply fractions, multiply the numerators and…
Month: March 2020
white paint
i covered my canvas with seventeen layers of white paint, one for each time i lost my purity like a picture of Dorian Gray, in reverse, a testament to my slow corruption into adulthood some dreams are shattered all at once, some are left intact, but mine were stripped from me, like seventeen layers of…
Mathematics and Trauma
I teach two sections of Honors Algebra II and two sections of Algebra II. Today, I introduced the concept of finding roots of rational functions. I did this with a discovery-based task. The student response to the task contained a lot of learning for me, and not just in the form of what they wrote…