{"id":3879,"date":"2009-12-21T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2010-02-13T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:51:43","slug":"classic-math-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/classic-math-mistakes-3879","title":{"rendered":"Classic math mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calculatorsoftware.co.uk\/classicmistake\/gallery.htm\">collection of mistakes in math<\/a>. It's interesting these mistakes are common all over the world. It could be something to do with the crazy inconsistencies in the way math is written. (See my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/towards-more-meaningful-math-notation-661\">Towards more meaningful math notation<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This is Mistake #17:<\/p>\n<div class=\"imgCenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/12\/cm17c.jpg\" alt=\"classic math mistake\" title=\"classic math mistake\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And this is Mistake #01:<\/p>\n<div class=\"imgCenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/12\/cm01c.jpg\" alt=\"classic math mistake\" title=\"classic math mistake\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" \/><\/div>\n<p>You can download (free) PDFs of these in color and black and white. There's also an MP3 commentary on each one.<\/p>\n<p>This page gives an overview of all resources available: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calculatorsoftware.co.uk\/classicmistake\/gallery.htm\">Classic Mistakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don't miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calculatorsoftware.co.uk\/classicmistake\/freebies.htm\">Freebies<\/a> page, which has more posters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/classic-math-mistakes-3879#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/classic-math-mistakes-3879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/12\/you-need2.gif\" alt=\"you need to find the mistake\" title=\"you-need\" width=\"128\" height=\"72\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Displaying posters of math mistakes can actually help students to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}