There’s something to be said about angles: “To think I will never see An angle as complementary as thee. An angle whose hungry mouth is open To a supplementary pair unbroken With a line, perpendicular or straight, We a newborn […]
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There’s something to be said about angles: “To think I will never see An angle as complementary as thee. An angle whose hungry mouth is open To a supplementary pair unbroken With a line, perpendicular or straight, We a newborn […]
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If your first thought of a trapezoid was either a flying circus act or a muscle in the shoulder, this blog is for you! First, a minor let down. A trapezoid is nothing exotic as double summersault through the air. […]
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All right, math wizards, here’s a trick question: does a circle have more than 360° in it? The answer: nope. Once you go all the way around a circle, you end up back at the beginning! Pretty easy, right? But […]
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Here’s a secret that math tutors keep to themselves: Sometimes, the fanciest math skills are actually the simplest ones! Like the ultra-mysterious Reference Angle! Sounds pretty impressive, no? But Reference Angles are actually one of the easiest things to define. […]
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In the whole, wide world of geometry, there are so many shapes and sizes of triangles that you might think they’re all exactly the same, or that they’re all completely different. Not necessarily! Two triangles must share precisely specific traits […]
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made Paul Revere famous, but maybe not for the reason history books tell us. You’ll see how the evolution of our understanding of this story corresponds to how our understanding of education evolves. When Longfellow put Revere […]
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Math brings out the artist in you! While the industrious student can simply whip out a graph calculator to draw up graphing functions, figuring out functions the old-fashioned way can be pretty keen. With nothing but a pencil and a […]
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When you first see a negative exponent such as 2-2, it can appear confusing. Although you know that 2 squared is 4, what is 2 squared to the -2 power? The answer is easier than it first appears, and will […]
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As a math student, you probably learned the squares of each number from one to 12 when you were young. For instance, you know that 7 times 7 is 49. Hence, the square root of 49 is obviously 7. But […]
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Remember when life was as simple as one, two, three? That was back in the day when numbers made sense. Numbers changed the quantity of stuff we had. We could add them, subtract them, multiply them like rabbits, and divide […]
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Mary had a shorn a little lamb Its fleece was filthy grey. Mary had to scrub it clean. For a sock on Mom’s birthday. She took it to an automat. But wondered what to add. Sodium carbonate will do the […]
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Jack and Jill went up a hill To fetch a pail a water. But Jack looked down At the sloping ground And said, “Slope’s -10, let’s go sledding after.” Jack wasn’t just wishing on the fly. He knew a good […]
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