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===A Note to Parents===
Children need strong math skills to solve today's and tomorrow's problems. The Milliken Math Sequences, along with the Tl Home Computer, can help your child meet these challenges. The series allows children to work at their own pace and on the skill level at which they need practice. Children find that learning with the computer is fun, challenging, and motivating. The computer never tires of repetition or loses patience-it's like having a private math tutor!
The Milliken Math Sequences, developed for Texas Instruments by Milliken Publishing Company, consists of twelve Solid State Cartridges. Each cartridge concentrates on a different skill area in mathematics, such as addition, subtraction, decimals, or laws of arithmetic. By providing different levels of difficulty, the series is suitable for children from the kindergarten age through grade eight.
The Laws of Arithmetic cartridge is divided into 19 levels of difficulty, covering material generally taught in grades four through eight. The program introduces your child to the basic laws of arithmetic: the property of zero, the principles of identity elements, and the commutative, associative, and the distributive properties.
The program also presents the applications of the laws of arithmetic. For instance, the commutative law, which states that the order of factors may be changed without affecting the resulting product, is applicable for addition and multiplication. The associative law, which states that the grouping of factors may be changed without affecting the resulting product, applies to both addition and multiplication.
Your child learns that multiplication is distributive over addition. The distributive property of multiplication states that multiplying one number (A) by a set of numbers which are to be added (8 + C) can be done in two ways. The numbers (8) and (C) can be added first and then the sum can be multiplied, or they can be multiplied by (A) one by one and then combined. For example,
::: A × (B + C) = (A × B) + (A × C).
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