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concepts takes years and is built upon pre-number and early number development. Therefore, the development of place value and understanding of the ten-base system needs to be understood in relation to early concepts. Classifying and patterning are elements of pre-number development that need to be developed as part of numeracy. Classifying helps children distinguish what to count and forms a basis for comparison. Interviewing a student about their answer for a number line can highlight issues…

where it is easily accessed by the students. Common misconceptions with students regarding decimals may stem from the ideas that longer is larger or smaller is larger. A common misunderstanding is when students compare numbers by separating the decimal numbers, creating two whole numbers on each side of the decimal. However, this misconception may be hard to recognise as an educator as sometimes it may result in a fluke answer. Example: Which is Smaller? Incorrect Reasoning Correct Reasoning…

During this activity that involves the child’s use of number, quantity or counting. The child is playing with toys that are called “shopkins” I believe which she says that she has a lot of them not only at home but at her nana’s house. And when she was playing with them she was counting how many she had in total and then separated them to see how much she can play with and what her friend could play with. They are kind of small toys but they know not to put them in their mouths which is a good…

a perfect Royal Flush on the same day. Now let’s consider the odds of me writing this essay and you reading this. The odds of one of us even being born was roughly 1 and 10^2,685,000 according to some statisticians more knowledgeable than I. This number is unfathomable to us as humans, but I will do my best to quantify the miracle of this paper in a story:…

Last summer I partnered with another educator from my school to craft a multisession mini course for Math for America. The course met over a three month period and focussed on teaching educators from the Metro New York area about the symmetries of a sphere using an ancient japanese art form called Temari. I used our organization’s shared digital message board called the small world network to post and share an overview of our course in the spring course catalog and invited 15-20 teachers to sign…

but to change your lifestyle. Choosing which lifestyle to follow can be a tricky task. I would like to make that task easier: The Low Glycemic Diet! The benefits of the low glycemic diet have been heralded for years and are hard to beat. By seeming index is a list of foods that is…

necessary for such applications is the high refractive index (RI) of the material. However, typical carbon based polymers have low RI values which limits the use of these polymers in the aforementioned applications. Thus, organic polymers with higher RI values, typically greater than 1.8, have attracted considerable interest in…

investment management – either utilizing active investment management or passive investment management. An active investment managers’ goal is to outperform a specific benchmark index by identifying mispriced securities. A passive managers’ goal is to closely track or replicate the return pattern of a specified benchmark index at a low cost. A passive manager does not make any attempt to seek out mispriced securities. Over the past several years, the rise of robo-advisor and FinTech which rely…

so complex that you can not even remember it. Do not spent so much time on it that you forget why you are even up there, and of course, stay focused, stay confident. Now for the hands, position the ball so that the numbers on it are facing you. Place your dominant hand so that your index finger is lined up slightly below the needle hole on the ball. Space your fingers about a half of an inch apart and place your other hand on the side of the ball so the center of your palm lines up where the…

the elbow. The last artery felt is the radial artery found inside the wrist near the thumb, again using two pointer fingers (index and middle finger work fine). After choosing what is believed to be the strongest…