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COOKIES

Time for Holiday Cookies — and Fractions

Time for Holiday Cookies — and Fractions

I haven’t started my holiday baking yet, but that time is just around the corner. Today, I bring you a post from last year, Cookie Exchange Math, in which I look at the fractions involved in tripling my cow cookie —

Math Expert December 5, 2012November 28, 2019 Holidays, Home, Math for Grownups, Math for Parents Read more

Cookie Exchange Math

Cookie Exchange Math

Ah, the cookie exchange!  What better way to multiply the variety of your holiday goodies.  (You can always give the date bars to your great aunt Marge.) The problem with this annual event is the math required to make five or

Math Expert December 14, 2011November 28, 2019 Holidays, Home, Math for Grownups, Math for Parents Read more

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The Math for Grownups Manifesto

1. Everyone has the “math gene.”

2. Everyone does math, every day. (Math is not just for scientists or mathematicians.)

3. Girls are great at math. (Boys, too!)

4. There’s more than one way to skin a math problem.

5. Math anxiety is real and detrimental—but it can be overcome.

6. Kids learn math best when they are allowed to discover their own approaches—and fail.

7. Math is not a competition.

8. Estimation is one of the most powerful math tools.

9. Math is about concepts, not right answers.

10. You can do math, promise.

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