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@Mrs_CHibbard @mathillustrated @librarycongress 4th grade circa 67/68 (Catholic school) the "new way" was called long division, then we learned the other way

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@abel_jennifer Hexaglexagons were a hit; check out vi hart videos, we did occasional mini lessons on fun historical problems: hilberts hotel; 4 color map problem, etc

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@untilnextstop Just an observation from my experiences. Many "mathy" kids do better with poetry where there are rules... Limericks, haiku, alliteration. It imposes structure that makes it more comfortable to write

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@KT_is_Reading @JayWamsted From a high school teacher, a clock on the wall or a teacher periodically writing the actual time on the board was helpful to many kids, but a countdown timer completely stressed out a significant number of them. Took them off everything.

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@anniek_p The day you sign up for that subscription is the day they start refusing all bananas

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@untilnextstop I don't know what it is called either, but always used it as an example in pre-calc. The eccentricity---the place where an ellipses switches to a hyperbola

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@mathequalslove We played that every year. Did 2v2 couldn't finish a full game in 45 minutes, but it cemented 4 names for each point and allowed a lot of fun trash talking

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@Trianglemancsd Seems to me she successfully managed to "sit in a chair that is too small" and appropriately applauded.
How fun

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@misscalcul8 Not the most obvious path, and a few notational errors, but every step is legal. I'd give full credit.

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@IanKerr_math If you need inspiration, check out this book.

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@untilnextstop Have you played ravensburger's labyrinth

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@bowmanimal I'd second set, but may need to be more cooperative than competitive. Also tiny polka dots is good for under six, War works as math and blokus if cooperative game

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@bowmanimal That's more than a small victory

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@bobloch @Desmos @GrittyNHL It's awesome, but poor Gritty doesn't even have a stick

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@misscalcul8 Is he assuming the diagonals bisect the vertex angles? SAS usually works with law of cosine.

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@untilnextstop @druinok JoAnns has a decent yarn selection. Yarn comes in different weights,( thickness). The hook size goes with yarn weight usually- the yarn wrapper will suggest a good hook size to use and your pattern usually tells you yarn weight and hook size

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@lethalpaints @misterdiehl Alternatively providing an explanation

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@Mrs_Meowmerz @theonides a/x and b/x^2 (typo)

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@Mrs_Meowmerz @theonides because you have both x and x^2 you use degree o for both--- prb could use x^2 with A +Bx but that simplifies to Ax and B /x^2

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@mathequalslove sounds like a perfectly valid use of time.