Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Interesting...!!

The funny math video at the top of my blog is really quite interesting. It is a "math lesson" about dividing shares (25%) evenly between 5 people. The argument is 14% a piece, for each person or 5. It is actually quite neat how the arguments work with this particular number.

I would be careful before showing this in a class, because if I had weak students I would be afraid of the outcome it could potentially have. But as long as I had a strong class, I think this would be an awesome little video to watch at the beginning of class!!
It is called "Math Lesson - Pa and Ma Kettle."

1 comment:

Alec Couros said...

Thahks for sharing! That's a classic.