what is mental math

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i have a question what is meant by meental math where and how you use mental math other than math class

[jencom]

Mental math is the ability to do math without paper/pencil or a calculator by rounding or estimating. You would mostly use this math while shopping.

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i have a question what is meant by meental math where and how you use mental math other than math class
I use m.m. everyday. Students have a sheet with the titles of Monday to Friday at the top and each is numbered 1-10. Then, any skill I want them to know [ie.multiplying by 10 or 100, adding in their heads using families,ie 367+43=, or converting percent to decimal....anything I want them to learn and do in their heads] I have them do daily in a quick 5 minute or less m.m. drill. Often I spend a week on one concept and teach it first [or review] and then we spend the week practicing. It's great and the kids build a lot of confidence from doing it. I don't grade them, we mark together and do together after each "Quiz", so it is not high pressure. jkruks1@shaw.ca

[professor]

Mental math is the ability to do math without paper/pencil or a calculator by rounding or estimating. You would mostly use this math while shopping.

This is interesting because, for years, I have prided myself on and, admittedly, become addicted to "beating" the store cashier to assessing the amount of change I am due from my purchase. :-0

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[baega]

:o I'm only starting out, but I do believe that it's particularly important to train the brain to calculate. I always believed that doing mental math was something only brainy people could do. Recently, however, I have been learning new techniques or so called tricks to do math quickly in the mind.

Sometimes when I need calculate something in my mind, I immediately revert back to my childhood days of believing that mental maths is only for brainy people. Then I have to pull myself together and say "I can do this now".

Just a little thought on the side: It's a shame that maths can be a fearful hated subject and at the other extreme a subject that can provide so much satisfaction.

This has been a bit of here and there message but just a question I'd like to ask teachers of math;

How do you try to make maths an enjoyable experience where the students are really learning are saying "we like maths"?

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hi there,
i have an assignment about how maths related to shopping... i would like to hear from you guys who read this... post me some ideas on that topic above yeah.. thanks you...

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It was operable for me! Try again...

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If the teacher has the passion, the students will also. Everything you really feel the students pick up from your body language, not verbal veracity.