benpeledmath.bsky.social
Teacher, thinker, tinkerer. VP DeltaMath.
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This was fun!
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Is -5, -5, -5 disallowed?
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My favorite in this genre was the person who once told me they were just fine until partial differential equations.
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That's so lovely and wonderful - what a great lesson! Thank you!
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Looking forward to reading all about it!
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I'm curious how she would say it! 1 and .5 thirds or 1 and a half-third. (Curious mainly how her knowledge of and evident comfort w/ decimals ties into her knowledge of fractions. Also, if she sees it as half of a third, then might be more amenable to thinking of it as a sixth.)
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Not 100% sure but I think it derives from the triangle/expressing the angles as complements.
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The model is flawed from the moment the student needs to pose a question. Students who struggle rarely even know what to ask.