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How to Teach Division to Children
In order to learn division, the student must first have a good understanding of multiplication. The child doesn’t need to be perfect but should know the majority of the facts or have a reasonably quick strategy to figure out the answer. [Read More]
Teaching Multiplication Facts
Multiplication facts are part of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study curriculum for the third grade. Eventually we hope that students will just “know” their facts – in other words, they are memorized but when first learning facts, it is best to teach students strategies for finding facts. This allows students to always have a fall back plan in case they “forget” the fact and it makes them quicker to learn. [Read More]
Geometry: Translations, Reflections, Rotations, and Dilations
One unit covered in Geometry deals with the concept of translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations. This article will serve to summarize some the major points for students studying these topics. Specifically, the article goes over topics including how to use “identity-type” matrices to find reflections and rotations. [Read More]