SamizdatMath

Greetings Phrens, This is an experiment for a third grade teacher who is struggling to engage two dyslexic students in the process of answering mathematical story problems. She showed me a set of story problems and described how a teacher had to sit next to the students and read the problems to the students, who then solved them. I thought about this and stated that this seemed like a very hard way to engage these students in problem solving, because the task was really more focused on reading

Nadia Geddit wanted to get into her building, but she forgot the code to the lock. However, she did remember some clues about the code. These are 5 clues about the code: 1) The sum of the fifth digit and the third digit is 14. 2) The fourth digit is one more than the second digit. 3) The first digit is one less than twice the second digit. 4) The sum of the second and third digit is 10. 5) The sum of all five digits is 30. What 5 digits must Nadia press to make the lock open? How wo

You've seen photos of these store bloopers around the web, and say to yourself, "you know, this would be great to use in my class...." but you never have the photo, and you never have the time to photoshop out the brands, fix the colors, crop the image and collect it all in one place. Well, it's all been done for you, and only for the magic price of $4.95, which is nothing when you consider there are 20 different "math fails" that range from simple counting (how many nuggets are printed on that

There are three crates. The first contains only apples; the second contains only oranges, and the third contains a combination of apples and oranges. Unfortunately, all the labels on the crates are incorrect. You can take only one piece of fruit from a crate, and may not look inside while you do it. From which crate would you take a piece of fruit to find out where to put the correct labels? A man who owned a winery recently passed away. In his will, he left 21 barrels, seven of which are fille