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Fun with Numbers

written by
ethan
at July 8, 2009

This post is set to go up automatically on 04:05:06 on 07/08/09

A few hours later if you look at your clock at the exact right time you will see 12:34:56 on 7/8/09

Pretty neat huh?  :-)

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Dragon Math

written by
ethan
at January 6, 2009

Kathy emailed us this photo of her son Jackson, with his pet bearded dragon, Drake, watching a MUS lesson. Enjoy :-)

Dragon Math
Dragon Math

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Math-U-See Word Cloud

written by
ethan
at November 6, 2008

I made a word cloud out of our testimonials page.

mathusee word cloud
powered by wordle.net

Have a great Math-U-See testimony? Share it in the comments.

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Math-U-See Happy Dance!

written by
ethan
at September 18, 2008

This is what a Math-U-See Happy Dance looks like :-)

Thanks to “Pages of our Life” for letting me post the video :-)

The other day we received our new math books from Math U See. My youngest was so excited he grabbed his and started dancing! I asked him if I could video him and he said, “Sure, Mom!”. This was so funny! It just goes to show that Steve Demme has done a great job instilling a love for Math.

Read the full post here.

Send your happy dance videos to ethan@mathusee.com

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Happy Birthday Steve!

written by
ethan
at August 4, 2008

We were doing some filming on Friday which was also Steve’s birthday, at the end of the filming the students erupted into song.

While “taking notes” they also made these happy birthday signs.

happy birthday steve

You can leave your happy birthday message in the comments if you like.

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A Sandwich or Not a Sandwich - That is the Question

written by
ethan
at April 7, 2008

Here is a word problem taken from one of our books that has caused a little confusion.

Jenna ordered four fish sandwiches and one hamburger. How many sandwiches did she order in all?

Jenny at Home is Where You Start From, wondered,

Mommy thought the answer was 4 - since clearly it was stated there were 4 sandwiches and 1 hamburger.

Demi was of the opinion that the answer was 5 - because a hamburger has 2 pieces of bread and a filling in between.

I asked Miriam, who wrote said word problem, for the story...

One of the most interesting things about writing word problems is finding how differently we all think. When I go out for fast food and ask my husband what kind of sandwich he wants, he can choose beef, chicken or fish. Hey, he can even choose a veggie burger ( not that he would!). But, I heard from my editor in England that this question sent her friends into hysterical laughter. I thought it was just a UK thing until I saw this post. Any suggestions for what kind of sandwich to substitute for the hamburger?

-Miriam

  

Your opinion and suggestions are needed, leave a comment and opine whether a Hamburger is a sandwich or not and place your choice for a substitute sandwich.

If we use your suggestion I’ll send you a Math-U-See tote bag :-)

 

 

Let the comments begin! 

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Happy Easter!

written by
ethan
at March 25, 2008

One of our reps sent us these pictures of their decorated easter eggs, enjoy!  

 

   

Nancy wrote:  

We have a tradition in our house, we color eggs on Resurrection Sunday. This year, because we don’t need as many eggs as we have in the past, we colored some for my assistant here in the office. This is part of what we gave her. We finished through Algebra 2 but the Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 didn’t turn out very well (hard to dye eggs brown).

  

Happy Easter!

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