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The intent of our Mathnerdy columns is to provide teachers and students with quick review problems in a game-like format. Working quickly under pressure is an actuality on Proficiency Tests, ACTs and SATs. Our Mathnerdy columns afford timed responses, in a fun and non-threatening atmosphere, that put a little pressure on the student. We have ten sets of 20 “Mathnerdy” columns, for fifth grade students through Calculus, so our “Mathnerdys” review many, many topics at varying levels of difficu

This offering is a set of 30 puzzles that can be used for 9 holidays and special days. There are various types of "search" puzzles, crosswords, some "math history of the holiday" puzzles, and some vocabulary puzzles. There are 3 Thanksgiving puzzles, 4 Easter puzzles (all are religious), 5 Christmas puzzles (3 are religious, 2 are secular), 3 St. Patrick's Day puzzles, 3 Pi Day puzzles, 3 Mothers Day puzzles, 3 Earth Day puzzles, 3 Halloween puzzles, and 3 Presidents' Day puzzles. For the mos

This prime set of Neat Numbers is intended to supplement work with learning essential number properties and operations at all levels in el-hi education . . . from First Grade to Calculus. Two of my major goals in teaching math have always been, first, to show how what we’re learning can be used and, second, to blend the “topic for the day” with other subjects whenever possible (integrate subjects and teach cross-curricularly, as it were). To that end, each of the 71/73 Neat Numbers is nea

This "two-volume" set of problems and puzzles should be all any school needs for their students to master those parts of arithmetic now needed in today's world . . . math or otherwise. The student will NOT have to do 568 x 47. That's for the calculator. The problems in this offering concentrate on those operations which should be done with no calculator. The problems herein work on mastering powers that should be known, and properties that are quite useful in computations. Major tests test

This package consists of all six of the puzzles I've written that involve Charles Dickens. Four of the puzzles are centered about his A Christmas Carol, another is a brief "arithmetical biography", and the other a blended math/literature puzzle that introduces the "doer" to 14 of Dickens' aptly named characters. A Christmas Carol is a foundation for four of the puzzles. Three of the puzzles might work nicely before reading the book - a "math essay" wherein the doer calculates some middle school

Here's a paper that I believe can help many find some ways to improve the results in your classroom. The entire title is: Teaching Mathematics from the 21st Century Onward (Teaching Tips with a Touch of Philosophy). I really try not to be too pedantic . . . but some times my passions get the best of me. For those I bore, or offend, I'm sorry. (But I STILL think you can find SOMETHING to use that will improve the way things are.)