Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Wires are Crossed with Cross-multiplication

In our classrooms, we've been having a lot of lively discussion about cross multiplication (i.e. the X-Man and Butterfly methods). Yeah, we know it works very well for comparing fractions, but why does it work?

Because you're on this blog right now, I urge you to go a step further. Get on your favorite search engines and see if you can find out why cross multiplication works.

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