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common questions: About Roman numerals. - Adding and Subtracting
Roman Numerals [10/07/1997] Do you have any suggestions for how
to teach adding and subtracting of - African-American
Mathematicians [11/07/1996] I am trying to compile a list of
African American mathematicians. - Egyptian Method of
Multiplication [6/26/1996] Have you ever heard of an Egyptian
Method of Multiplication? - Eratosthenes and the Circumference
of the Earth [10/7/1995] How did Eratosthenes measure the
circumference of the earth? - First Math Teacher, Pythagorean
Theorem [1/6/1995] Who was the first math teacher? How did
Pythagoreas come up with a^2 + b^2 = c^2? - Geometry History
[8/8/1996] I'm looking information about the history of
Geometry. - History of Numbers [09/04/1997] My Algebra 2 teacher
asked us to do a report on the history of numbers. - Lattice