{Musing Mathematically}: Measuring Roots - 0 views
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For many students, no matter their age, math begins with an answer. You then form a question, jeopardy style, to help disguise the number.
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Most students learn to expect math questions and problems to be short, quick, to the point, solvable and structured around "clean" answers (often related in some way to integer components). They anticipate the answers before they anticipate the questions. I am not sure if they even consider the math.
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They completely miss the point and the empowering strength of math process and pattern.
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This is a spectacular posting that could be used with ES or MS students (or possibly HS students, too) to explore square roots.