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Category: CW: Math (Medium)

CW: Math (Medium)

Marty’s Viral Pizza Load

Posted on November 6, 2021 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

This is making its internet rounds again: These days, I see it in math teacher forums clucking about our colleagues. There is often a microaggressive wink-wink ...

CW: Math (Medium)

In (Partial) Defense of Butterflies

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Teaching students how to add fractions can be a real struggle. A big part of this is that we tend to get conceptually complicated about what fractions are. And ...

CW: Math (Medium)

What’s the Deal with Logarithms?

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I’m going to talk about logs here. I have more to say later, but this is a basic intro sketch. First I’m going to talk about the stuff of elementary school. Whe...

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A Hodgepodge of Inconsistencies

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Mathematical terminology and notation through a linguistic lens Introduction The first time I attended graduate school was for Linguistics. My first year, I tau...

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Keeping, Changing, Flipping

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Clio Corvid / 2 Comments

Consider the following task: \[1.\quad \text{Simplify the expression }\frac{3}{4}\div\frac{2}{5}.\] It is very common for students to struggle with this sort of...

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Math Education and One True Wayism

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

This is a common criticism of Common Core (CCSS): It offers these strange new methods that students must use. Except… only the first part of that is true. CCSS ...

CW: Math (Medium)

Reframing the Quadratic Formula

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Clio Corvid / 1 Comment

When I was in school, I was taught the Quadratic Formula. I was taught that it was the most efficient, more reliable way to find the roots of a quadratic functi...

CW: Math (Medium)

Functions and Domains: The Other Shoe

Posted on October 24, 2020 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I have taught high school mathematics for nearly a decade. I have a BS in Mathematics. The Algebra II curriculum, which I largely built for my school, is based ...

CW: Math (Medium)

Rate of Change and the Power Rule

Posted on October 18, 2020 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I’ll keep this one short. Also, it’s on calculus, for whatever that’s worth. The Power Rule for Differentiation says that the derivative of a monomial \(ax^b\) ...

CW: Math (Medium)

Seriously, It’s Just Division

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Don’t get caught up on the concept of “fractions”. There is one topic students of mathematics consistently struggle with, to the point that it has become legend...

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