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Math-people, Pt. 2

On By Luther M. SilerIn TeachingLeave a comment

Okay, maybe that wasn’t as complicated as I thought it was going to be:

Basically all I did was add the “Is the number a fraction?” step there, and we’ll have to review converting fractions to decimals a bit, but it’ll do and they need to remember how to do that anyway.

In the meantime, I actually called out sick today; my Mounjaro (I assume) got on top of me hard in the last couple of days and I spent less of last night sleeping than I generally like to do, in favor of activities that generally aren’t meant to be described in polite company. So I slept most of the day away once it passed. I may have to have a review day for my kids on Friday already, though, which feels awfully early, although if I remember right we probably had about one a month last year anyway so maybe not. We’ll see how the next couple of days go, assuming I can drag my ass out of bed.

Math humans!

On By Luther M. SilerIn Teaching2 Comments

Look at this flowchart:

I am not a digital artist, as you can probably tell, and I put this together in Sheets, which is certainly really far from the best way to do it, but it gets the job done. Here’s the question: how do I best include the existence of fractions? Fractions are always rational, but depending on what the fraction is, it can be any of the rational number sub-categories as well. I could just include an instruction after the first question to convert fractions to decimals, but 1) that feels inelegant, and 2) it sort of introduces another source of error, but that source is there anyway, I suppose– a kid that doesn’t recognize 1/3 as a repeating decimal is probably also not going to realize that 12/4 is a natural number.

Can you figure out a way to work fractions into this without adding a ton of qualifiers and disclaimers or extra questions? One or two is fine but I don’t want this to get much messier than it already is.

Hmm.

Get to work you bum

On By Luther M. SilerIn Writing3 Comments

I posted this to Twitter yesterday after I came across it, but I want to put it here too because I like it.

One more sale roundup post later, for those of you who like the more numbery/process-based posts, and then I promise I’ll try not to talk about writing for a few days.  🙂

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On By Luther M. SilerIn Uncategorized4 Comments

If, like me, you only pay attention to soccer for a month or so every four years (and call it “soccer”) this may come in handy:

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