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Article: THE EQUALS SIGN AND ME
Mathematics Teaching;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... interested in children's thinking about the equals sign and what he intends to do about it ... never paused to consider the role the equals sign might play. All that changed when I ... fractions. An encounter with a stubborn equals sign It all began when I was asked to trial ...

Article: Balancing act: the truth behind the equals sign.
Teaching Children Mathematics;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Thinking of the equals sign operationally is a common interpretation ... elementary grades generally think that the equals sign means that they should carry out the ... precedes it and that the number after the equals sign is the answer to the calculation. Elementary ...

Dictionary definition: equals sign
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;      250 words ...equals sign (or equal sign ) The symbol “=” used between two expressions to indicate that they take the same value.

Article: DOWN-TO-EARTH WELSH FIRSTS; THE Americans may have put the first ...
Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales);  July 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... famous for two key innovations. Firstly he came up with the equals sign "=", which is fairly useful as these things go. Secondly ... AS well as plaguing school children everywhere with the equals sign, it was also aWelsh mathematician who came up with the idea ...

Article: Math data missing an `equals' sign
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M2 Presswire;  March 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Government: Neighbourhood Management a valuable tool says independent report(C)1994 ... states that the 35 pathfinders are a "valuable tool" in regenerating deprived areas and ... neighbourhood management is indeed a valuable tool that deserves to be developed and adopted ...

Article: Arthroscopy is a valuable tool in the diagnosis and ...
Health & Medicine Week;  January 5, 2004 ;     571 words ... ... NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Arthroscopy is a valuable tool in the diagnosis and treatment of localized pigmented villonodular ... follow-up (range: 12-33 months). Arthroscopy is a valuable tool in the diagnosis and treatment of LPVNS." Akgun and colleagues ...