Math is everywhere, when you start looking for it. In this post you learn about a fun summertime geometry project. Have your children look at highway signs and try to find as many geometric objects as they can. They can even come up with geometry problems based on the signs, too.
Here’s a quick way to find the Least Common Multiple for a pair of numbers. It involves two short, quick steps: reducing a fraction. Then flipping it and multiplying.
Two little exceptions to the technique laid out in yesterday’s post. To make sure you don’t overlook the exceptions, read this post today.
For the most part, when you set out to find the least common multiple for a pair of numbers, you are asked to go through a bunch of steps that don’t really make sense. Till now! Here’s a way to find the LCM that truly does make sense. This post explains it in clear English, and it throws in some nice tables and diagrams to make the whole process make even more sense!
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