Monthly Archives: December 2010

Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 38

Posted on 2010/12/31 by

In the last three posts in this series, we played with addition tables, multiplication tables, and division tables, and looked at equivalence classes and representatives of each equivalence class. As promised, a look at subtraction, but let’s look at subtraction … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 37

Posted on 2010/12/29 by

In this series we’ve looked at boxes that take certain inputs and then produce an output.  We’ve called such boxes operators, and we’ve thought of them in many different ways.  In some cases, the boxes perform arithmetic; in other cases, … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 36

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In the previous post in this series, we broached the subject of equivalence classes.  We did so in the context of looking at an addition table and noticing how each value in the table occurred multiple times.  We drew a … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 35

Posted on 2010/12/20 by

In the previous post of this series, we looked more closely at the mathematical notion of equivalence, through the lens of operators.   Specifically, we looked at a split (pair) 2|13 and then looked at an operator that turns 2|13 into … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 34

Posted on 2010/12/18 by

In the previous post in this series, we looked at some operators that take in two numbers and produce some kind of pair of numbers, an ordered pair, in a way that can be reversed. Here’s another way to produce … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 33

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In this series we have looked at various examples of operators, and most of our attention has been on operators where what comes out is a number, and what comes in is one or two numbers.  Some examples of two-numbers … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 32

Posted on 2010/12/02 by

In this series, we’ve been looking at a model for presenting and analyzing operators with an intention for it to have applications for students learning math in school.  In recent posts, we’ve looked for  interesting aspects of school math that … Continue reading →

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