4.1 Welcome

Exploding Dots

4.1 Welcome

Lesson materials located below the video overview.

Course Home

Okay. Let’s keep working with the \(1 \leftarrow\) machine.

So far we’ve made sense of addition and multiplication. But we skipped over subtraction. Why? Because I don’t believe in subtraction! To me, subtraction is just the addition of the opposite.

Let’s explore what I mean by this.

Supplementary Content for this Experience:

The overall Teacher’s guide: Teaching_Guide_GETTING STARTED

Teacher’s Guide for this Experience: Teaching_Guide_EXPERIENCE_4

Accompanying Student handouts: Handouts_EXPERIENCE_4

Sprinkled throughout these lessons are kid videos, from Goldfish & Robin and friends, explaining the math for kids too. Here is their vision statement.

BOOK CHAPTERS (The on-screen text as a book to download.)

Chapter 4 EXPLODING DOTS (English)

Chapter 4 EXPLODING DOTS Bulgarian (Translated by Stanislav Chobanov)

Chapter 4 EXPLODING DOTS Chinese (Translated by Chee Wei Tan)

Chapter 4 EXPLODING DOTS French (Translated by Pierre-Yves Dansereau)

Chapter 4 EXPLODING DOTS Serbian (Translated by Aleksandra Ravas)

Chapter 4 EXPLODING DOTS Spanish (Translated by Cindy Weitzman)

Apps

The Global Math Project is honoured to have a number of its partner organizations provide the means to play with and learn about Exploding Dots with newly developed apps, products, and pages especially designed for the project. Click here. Of course, Scolab (Buzzmath) has the full Exploding Dots story here.