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NCTM 2015 Annual Meeting & Exposition

Please note: The NCTM conference program is subject to change.

490- Teaching Logarithms for Understanding

Friday, April 17, 2015: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
161 (BCEC)

 

Lead Speaker:
Michael Manganello
Co-Speaker:
David R. Miller

Handouts NCTM Presentation.pdf

 

Logarithms are one of the most dreaded, and least meaningful, topics in the high school curriculum. Logarithms would make more sense if we helped students understand why logarithms were invented, how they were useful for simplifying computations, and how they continue to be useful in statistics.

 

Presentation Format: 9-12 Session

 

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