Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Visual Clues

9 comments:

  1. I like that! Hadn't see it before! :)

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  2. Anonymous11:27 PM

    Me too - very nice!

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  3. Anonymous2:12 PM

    Nice. Though there is a cool way to search for free math video lessons on google. Just search "topicname tenmarks". First result will get u there.Hope its useful.

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  4. stealing that :-) thanks

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  5. I like that! It is an extension of a visual clue I had students come up with many years ago.

    Draw a cursive lower case y on a piece of paper; turn it upside down. The y becomes an h.

    A visual clue to remember y = # is a horizontal line.

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  6. Ooh, I hadn't heard of that y-h connection. It's almost like that math/artist that writes things so they read right-side-up and upside down.

    Thanks,

    Ms. Cookie

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  7. Ummm....brilliant!!!!!

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  8. Do the kids get confused between negative and no?

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  9. Good point, Angela. Honestly, I haven't taught the course in a while, so I don't remember. I think it mostly started with the Zero and No slope which kids ALWAYS seem to mix up. They know one or the other is vertical/horizontal but they forget which. So I think that's the link for them. They also know positive and negative are "slanted", so maybe the N helps them remember the negative part.

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