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Maths – Distributive Property

Notes: Distributive property is one of key links in elementary school maths. Indeed, in my opinion, if you really understand three concepts: fractions, negative numbers and the distributive property before you graduate from elementary school, you are good to go to middle school maths. How to group things in different ways, array or matrix. Or […]

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Maths – operation orders

Is the following calculation correct? If not, please correct it. Can you imagine why a person made this mistake? 7 – (5 – 2) = (5 -2) – 7 One possible reason for this mistake: The person remembers to do what is in parentheses first. So when being asked show your work, he put parentheses […]

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Maths – Numbers and Subtractions

Is the following calculation correct? If not, please correct it. Can you imagine why a person made this mistake? Two possible reasons for this mistake: The person confused numbers 24, 18, as 2, 4, 1, 8. Thus, he does not understand a number is composed of digits (from 0 to 9) and each digit’s place […]

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