THIS IS THE ADVANCED MATHEMATICS PLACEMENT TEST DATE: _____________________________________ NAME: _____________________________________ CLASS: _____________________________________ TEACHER: __________________________________ Directions: Answer the following questions. Write (in English or whatever language you can muster) the numbers 1 through 20 here: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Write the Latin numbers 1 through 10 here: ____________________________________________________________________________ Answer this riddle (correctly): So, one grandmother, two mothers, and four children went to the park. How many people went to the park (reduce answer as much as […] Read more »
Pi: 3.141592653589 and on to infinity
Hello, Readers! This is my second appearance on this blog, so I will remind you of my name. It is not Arabian11, RiddleGiver, or Min Sullivan, or even Minny. I am not the mad scientist who thinks he has to be angry to be a mad scientist, nor am I his partner (I will not mention her name, but her name is spelled out in the periodic table; look at the chemical symbols for the […] Read more »
The Difference (a peek at 6th grade math)
Dedication: For my friend. I (Mathematicus, a.k.a. Mathematikos) love angle bisectors (and line bisectors), which I learned about in 6th grade. I also love fractions. I love especially changing a decimal into a fraction or percent, or vice versa. But this blog post is not about anything but fractions. I like multiplying fractions, and dividing them especially. 😀 This is about subtracting fractions, though. The subtraction of fractions (you’ll be learning that in 6th […] Read more »