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Tuesday, January 5, 2010 – Why is the Volume of a Sphere Formula the Way It Is?

minkusbc — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:04:55 +0000

Dodeca and Icosa discuss why the volume of a sphere has the formula that it does. Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 – Volumes of Pyramids

minkusbc — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:42:13 +0000

Dodeca and Icosa discuss how the formulas for the volumes of pyramids can be obtained from the formulas for the volumes of prisms. Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 – Volumes Part One

minkusbc — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:16:39 +0000

Dodeca and Icosa have a look at how volumes of shapes can be computed from the areas of their bases. Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary

Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 – Areas of Irregular Shapes

minkusbc — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:24:13 +0000

Dodeca is shown by Icosa how to work with areas of shapes that are irregular. Click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 – Finding the Area of a Circle

minkusbc — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:15:08 +0000

Dodeca and Icosa look at another way that one can work out the area of a circle. Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 – Areas of Shapes, Part One

minkusbc — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:18:59 +0000

Icosa and Dodeca discuss the areas of the shapes: rectangles, squares, parallelograms and triangles. Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 – Multiplying and Dividing by 100 and 1 000

minkusbc — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:46:22 +0000

Dodeca and Icosa discuss how to multiply and divide by 100 and 1 000. Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 – A “Total-Of” Type Word Problem

minkusbc — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:11:57 +0000

Icosa shows Dodeca how to do “total of” type word problems. Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 – Perimeter Word Problems

minkusbc — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:51:25 +0000

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Icosa and Dodeca continue with their series on word problems, this time they discuss the perimeter word problem type. Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 – Two Unknowns in a Word Problem

minkusbc — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:00:05 +0000

Icosa and Dodeca carry on with their series on Word Problems, this time discussing how to setup and solve a word problem containing two unknowns. Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.

Please click on the comic strip to enlarge if necessary.