Showing posts with label index laws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label index laws. Show all posts

Friday, April 15, 2011

Take a piece of paper ....

What does it take to learn the Index Laws? Surprisingly little if you (i) can fold a piece of paper (ii) can multiply by two. I first observed my head teacher do a version of this lesson last year with his Year 7 class, and had the joy of doing a more advanced version with my Year 9 this year.  I have a feeling the idea goes back to the dawn of maths teaching, but I haven't seen a resource explaining it, so thought it would be fun to share my take on it.

Index Laws Folding Paper v1