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Lesson Plan Ideas For Math With Videos and Drama
Math can often be seen as being a little… staid. Very necessary, of course, but firmly grounded in the world of fact. It seems as if creativity and eccentricity has no place in a lesson plan for math. You can’t get creative with facts like 2 + 2 = 4 or with feet and inches. Or can you?
One teacher, Ms Kay Toliver, who originally worked in Primary School 72 in East Harlem, New York, has managed to change all that, and her ideas are beginning to spread to other educators, and she has won a Presidential Award for her creative ideas. A math lesson plan, for Ms Toliver, is likely to include songs, costume and drama – and her pupils absolutely love it. “I just try to figure out how I can make this information interesting enough,” she says, explaining why she has a tendency to sing some of her lessons or her use of eccentric costumes and props.
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How to Solve Easy Math Word Problems
Frank Howard Clark said, “I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.” What Mr. Clark would like to convey with this is that the way to solving easy math word problems is by having fun with the problems. And in having fun with them, there are two simple steps in solving math word problems:
Step 1: Translate the words into a numeric expression or equation
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Why Math is Important
As a private Math tutor I get asked this question a lot. I sit there explaining how to solve a simultaneous equation and I get interrupted by the student who demands to know how this will help them in life.
My answer to this question is always the same and always will be, and if I got a pound for every time that I have been asked this question then I probably wouldn’t have to work anymore! I therefore decided to create this article so that anybody reading this will know the answer and not need to pester their Mathematics teacher.
Algebra has real life applications from engineering to computer games design and from predicting future trends in the financial markets to designing circuit boards. More generally, mathematics is fundamental in everyday life, from working out the VAT on a TV to calculating how much change you will receive when you buy a chocolate bar.
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