Tag Archives: equivalence

Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 42

Posted on 2011/04/03 by

In this series, we’ve been looking at black boxes, where you put something in and something comes out.  From looking at its behavior, you can often propose a model for what is happening inside.  If you build the model, and … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 41

Posted on 2011/02/16 by

In this series, we’ve pictured operators as black boxes with inputs and outputs.  In the previous post we looked at rather ordinary addition from a less ordinary perspective: we imagined the number line arranged as a cylindrical spiral, like a … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 40

Posted on 2011/01/17 by

In this series, we’ve spent considerable space playing with operators, which we’ve pictured as black boxes with inputs and outputs, often as part of a machine with state.  In more recent posts, e.g. this one , we’ve looked at operators … Continue reading →

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Operators, Functions, and Properties – part 39

Posted on 2011/01/07 by

In this series, we’ve been looking at operators in various settings, and looked for ways to use them to shine a different colored light on some aspects school math.  In the last four posts, we’ve explored the notions of equivalence  … 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

Posted on 2010/12/21 by

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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