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Two wrongs make a right

Students make a lot of mistakes when doing their maths, but sometimes they will make two mistakes in such a way that their final answer is still correct. This happened last week with one student quite spectacularly, because his doubly wrong method of doing a particular problem always produces the correct answer.

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Two kinds of division

If you had to explain what the expression "10聽梅 5" (that is "10 divided by 5") meant, what would you say? To be clear, I'm not asking for the answer, I'm asking for a story that will give it meaning.

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Elsa's Freedom

Disney's Frozen came out on DVD last week and my family and I watched it on Saturday. It's a very good movie with an excellent theme about the real nature of true love which is not usually seen in a "princess movie". There are also two different stories about freedom, which is pretty common in a princess story (consider Rapunzel in Tangled and Jasmine in Aladdin). It's this I want to talk about today.

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