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Fun With Zooming Number Lines in Grade 8

Fun With Zooming Number Lines in Grade 8

by Charles Larrieu Casias | May 21, 2018 | Grades 6–8

By Charles Larrieu Casias The number line is an anchor representation that threads through the entire middle school curriculum. For this blog post, I want to focus on a creative use of the number line in grade 8 to explore scientific notation and irrational numbers....
Sometimes the Real World Is Overrated: The Joy of Silly Applications

Sometimes the Real World Is Overrated: The Joy of Silly Applications

by Charles Larrieu Casias | Mar 26, 2018 | Grades 6–8

By Charles Larrieu Casias One of the cool things about math is that it can provide powerful new ways of seeing the world. Just for fun, I want you to open up this lesson from the grade 8 student text. Take a quick skim. What do you notice? What do you wonder? When...

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