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How much?
Posted by Kathryn on 24th December in Math
As a math activity, I had C1 attempt to figure out how much all the gifts from the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” would cost. I found current prices (pdf) for each on the web. Seriously, what isn’t on the web these days? I then made an Excel file to help the kids calculate [...]
Making Predictions
Posted by Kathryn on 6th April in Math
I’ve reached the section on probability in C1′s math book. I hate probability. I stunk at it in college. And I stunk at it even more in grad school (grumble grumble, basis of statistics). Any how, so I’m now teaching probability to C1. One little section was on making predictions about the whole based on [...]
What a cool Christmas gift!
Posted by Kathryn on 25th December in Math
As many of you know, I’m active in BOINC. One of the projects I participate in is PrimeGrid. It’s a project that helps search for prime numbers of certain types. I don’t even pretend to understand the math. I just know a prime number is one that is only divisible by one and itself (for [...]
Math Basketball
Posted by Kathryn on 16th October in Math
As per my typical Tuesday teaching schedule, I had a double with my B1 math class today. The first half of class we did the page in their text book. There’s no point in me going through the problems step by step (two digit subtraction with borrowing) because everyone can do it fairly easily. Recently, [...]
Bingo!
Posted by Kathryn on 22nd September in Math
Bingo is actually a pretty good educational game. I’ve played it with my traditional ESL subject classes and with my math classes. For my low level math classes, I’ve played classic Bingo. This helps those students match the number words they are hearing with the numerals on their Bingo card. I’ve also played what I [...]
