PEMDAS and negative numbers
By standard mathematical convention, \(-1^2=-1\). At the same time, students are taught to refer to \(-1\) as a negative number. A friend recently led me to rea...
By standard mathematical convention, \(-1^2=-1\). At the same time, students are taught to refer to \(-1\) as a negative number. A friend recently led me to rea...
Except for the final grades, I’ve just wrapped up teaching six weeks of credit recovery for Freshman Algebra. It’s tough enough packing nine months&...
From time to time, a mathematical question of some sort will make its rounds on Facebook and other social media platforms. For instance, the one making the roun...
As of this summer, the summer of 2012, I am qualified to teach mathematics at the high school level in the state of Michigan. I am expecting to be doing so full...