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Volume of pyramids, cones, and spheres (Part 3)
I’m in the middle of a series of posts concerning the area of a triangle. Today, however, I want to take a one-post detour using yesterday’s post as a springboard. In yesterday’s post, we discussed a...
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Engaging students: Finding the volume and surface area of spheres
In my capstone class for future secondary math teachers, I ask my students to come up with ideas for engaging their students with different topics in the secondary mathematics curriculum. In other...
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Lessons from teaching gifted elementary school students (Part 3b)
Every so often, I’ll informally teach a class of gifted elementary-school students. I greatly enjoy interacting with them, and I especially enjoy the questions they pose. Often these children pose...
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Area of a Triangle and Volume of Common Shapes: Index
I’m using the Twelve Days of Christmas (and perhaps a few extra days besides) to do something that I should have done a long time ago: collect past series of posts into a single, easy-to-reference...
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Engaging students: Finding the volume and surface area of spheres
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Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions
I enjoyed reading this bit of mathematical news: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160330-sphere-packing-solved-in-higher-dimensions/ The opening paragraphs: In a pair of papers posted online this...
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Lessons from teaching gifted elementary school students (Part 7a)
Every so often, I’ll informally teach a class of gifted elementary-school students. I greatly enjoy interacting with them, and I especially enjoy the questions they pose. Often these children pose...
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Lessons from teaching gifted elementary students (Part 7b)
Every so often, I’ll informally teach a class of gifted elementary-school students. I greatly enjoy interacting with them, and I especially enjoy the questions they pose. Often these children pose...
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In my capstone class for future secondary math teachers, I ask my students to come up with ideas for engaging their students with different topics in the secondary mathematics curriculum. In other...
View ArticleEngaging students: Finding the volume and surface area of spheres
In my capstone class for future secondary math teachers, I ask my students to come up with ideas for engaging their students with different topics in the secondary mathematics curriculum. In other...
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