When students exercise shape flexibility in solving a math problem to enhance their understanding, or to figure out any hidden or nonobvious relationship between the known and unknown quantities, such as moving and rearranging parts of a bar model drawing or/and adding dotted lines to a model diagram.
It’s not surprising that those who practice spatial structuring stand a higher chance of solving a word problem when using the “draw a diagram” strategy than their peers who don’t.
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Prescribing matherapy to her patients—even to those who’d had a negative experience of school math, or who’d called themselves a “nonmath person”—Dr. Janice is encouraged by their high healing success rate—no side effects as a result of zero prescription of medication and pseudoscientific therapies.
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Unlike other noteworthy but struggling constants like e and 𝜙, π has continually succeeded to be part of popular culture, because she believes that “pi as propaganda” is an effective marketing tool to remain relevant in the minds of both math and nonmath people.
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Mr. Paulos made a police report about his lawn probably being vandalized by some inconsiderate alien pi forces.
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The bitcoinization of Singapore math has propelled the city-state to lead the way in blockchain technology and math education, much to the envy of math educators around the globe.
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Millions of MAGA patriots have been brainwashed or radicalized to believe post truth math without questions, which has indirectly led to the banning of some math titles or classics in some puritan circles.
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