Typical Classroom Scenario? We're introducing the idea of least common multiple of two positive integers and after defining the terminology and illustrating several examples most students are catching on to some procedural method of which there are...

Mathmom contributed some insightful thoughts about how most middle school students might feel about the probability investigation from the other day. I agree with her that some would be able to compute the results or even devise a general formula but...

Summer vacation is an appropriate time for fantasy. Enjoy the hiatus! The following investigation is not intended to be a math contest challenge. It reviews fundamental principles of probability and you might want to bookmark it for the fall. We can...

As my devoted readers know, Totally Clueless, affectionately known as TC, has contributed many insightful comments and profound ideas for us to think about. His sobriquet belies a brilliant creative mind of course. He recently sent me a geometry...

Maybe I should rename this blog to Saturday 'Morning' Post. After all, no one reads that either anymore! As the school year comes to a close (and I'm assuming it's already over for some), here's an innocent-looking equation which might be worth...