Interesting Lessons and
Frequently Asked Questions about Math

There are some basic questions about math that get asked over and over again. It is amazing that so many people who have gone through, or are going through, the school system have no Idea about some of the basic laws of math, or why they work.

For instance, almost everyone has heard that, "You can't divide by zero." I am sure that there is at least one person in every single math class in American schools who doesn't know that, strictly speaking, that isn't true. You CAN divide by zero - you just won't get a useful answer when you do. Find out what answer you will get if you do, and why. Then you will understand (probably better then your teacher) why they say you can't divide by zero.

This is one of the basic problems of math education - you learn a bunch of "facts," but have no Idea of the deeper meanings behind them, or any Idea of how you might ever use them. This is failure to create any meaningful relationship to the material learned is rampant in our school systems, and nowhere more apparent than in math classes.

Here is a list of Frequently Asked Questions and assorted lessons that illustrate basic math concepts. Browse through them and find some that sound interesting to you, and to see if you are not clear on any of them. Then take those lessons to enhance your skills in that area.

 All of them are explained in plain english.

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