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Opening FDWK

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. FDWK refers to Ross Finney, Frank Demana, Bert Waits, and Dan Kennedy, the team of authors who for many years and multiple editions updated Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, one of the most popular textbooks for the College Board’s...

There and Back Again: The Die is Cast

What finally solved my tardiness problem wasn't technology — it was a five-minute warm-up, a single die, and a little backward design. By Lew Ludwig In the opening chapter of The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins has his evening thoroughly upended. First, Dwalin rings the bell. Then Balin. Then Fíli and Kíli arrive as a pair. Before...

Problem-Solving Strategy #2: Do Something

Innovation in research and business is not an easy pursuit. Many times one is stymied and not even able to conceive of any next step to take. Perhaps the most powerful of problem-solving techniques, in mathematics and in life, is to simply DO SOMETHING, now matter how irrelevant or unhelpful it may seem! Read more...

Curriculum Inspirations: Pencil Prices

James Tanton takes viewers through this question from the 2011 MAA AMC 10a Competition. Appropriate for the 10th grade level, this question covers Algebra. Common Core State Standards (CCSS): A-SSE.2; 7.G.4 Read the Curriculum Burst essay that goes with this question here: Pencil Prices This video demonstrates problem-solving strategy #8: Second-Guess the Author Curriculum Inspirations...

Freaky Fraction Splitting

Take a pile of nine pebbles, nine coins, or nine cucumbers (but you can't use zucchini!) and split it into two piles. Then, split each of those piles into two piles. Keep doing this until you have nine piles, each with one object. What could be mathematically astounding about such a process? There is a...

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