Comments on: Fermat and you http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/fermat-and-you/ Education, Math, Teaching, New York, Bronx, Union, Language, Travel Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:03:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Trinomial Factoring - nice site and last detail « JD2718 http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/fermat-and-you/#comment-41805 Trinomial Factoring - nice site and last detail « JD2718 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:01:31 +0000 http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/fermat-and-you/#comment-41805 [...] I learned breaking the middle from Steve Conrad at an Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State event five years ago. I’m [...] [...] I learned breaking the middle from Steve Conrad at an Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State event five years ago. I’m [...]

]]> By: Erdős and me? N(e)(me) = 5 (extended) « JD2718 http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/fermat-and-you/#comment-13954 Erdős and me? N(e)(me) = 5 (extended) « JD2718 Sun, 13 May 2007 13:38:28 +0000 http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/fermat-and-you/#comment-13954 [...] May 13, 2007 pm31 5:35 pm Posted by jd2718 in Math Education, Math. trackback Did you read this post where I connected my students to Pierre Fermat (in 5 awkward steps)? That sort of game is [...] [...] May 13, 2007 pm31 5:35 pm Posted by jd2718 in Math Education, Math. trackback Did you read this post where I connected my students to Pierre Fermat (in 5 awkward steps)? That sort of game is [...]

]]> By: jd2718 http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/fermat-and-you/#comment-13869 jd2718 Sat, 12 May 2007 15:10:25 +0000 http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/fermat-and-you/#comment-13869 Needs its own post, but in brief: breaking the middle (using a search technique I devised), then grouping. Good for all factorable trinomials and difference of perfect squares. No preference for a=1. In fact, the easy cases become the special cases. More in a full post, somewhere down the line. Needs its own post, but in brief: breaking the middle (using a search technique I devised), then grouping. Good for all factorable trinomials and difference of perfect squares.

No preference for a=1. In fact, the easy cases become the special cases. More in a full post, somewhere down the line.

]]> By: Myrtle Hocklemeier http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/fermat-and-you/#comment-13865 Myrtle Hocklemeier Sat, 12 May 2007 14:26:13 +0000 http://jd2718.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/fermat-and-you/#comment-13865 Showing connections, however tenuous, makes it "real." And what was the trinomial factoring lesson? Showing connections, however tenuous, makes it “real.”

And what was the trinomial factoring lesson?

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