… http://www.unicog.org/main/pages.php?page=NumberRace I found this in my tainted search for things about dyscalculia (discalculia?). First I found a “review” site that was painfully translated and noted that no, this site didn’t actually review products, but did remote statistical analyses and gave a rating based on that, and hey, this one had good numbers so maybe… [Read more…]
December 24, 2011
Well, not minor to me I’ve struggled with why folks who tout “throw away traditional math instruction! We need more problem-solving!” just don’t make me want to stand up and join them. For that matter, the “we need to bring back real teaching and actually have kids learn the tiems tables!” people don’t either. I… [Read more…]
December 21, 2011
Got a little traffic yesterday from a common-core-mathematics “curator” link at “scoop.it.” Reckon I picked the right tags? Wondering today about whether anybody does individualized assessments of people’s math skills beyond sticking a paper or computer in front of ‘em and having them crank out computations or answer word problems (and then making grand assumptions… [Read more…]
December 5, 2011
I don’t want to ban calculators at all — just as with reading accommodations, don’t let lack of one skill (especially but not exclusively a rote one) keep you from accessing another skill (especially but not exclusively a conceptual one). However, don’t stop developing the skills you lack. Two experiences today speaking to hazards of… [Read more…]
October 15, 2011
One of my favorite parts of teaching beginning swimming was teaching the back float. Back floats are really, really scary and one of the things that keeps people from getting to Advanced Beginner. They can do everything but the back float. (Can you see the connection to math yet?) And… if you’re scared, you tense… [Read more…]
October 14, 2011
The International Dyslexia Association devoted an entire _Perspectives_ quarterly to math difficulties. They also have rather generous permissions policies, so as a member, I have contrived to change the PDF to html, open it with SeaMonkey and edit it, and even add my own annotations in green. It is at http://www.resourceroom.net/math/perspectives_dyslexia_mathweb.html I am duly pondering… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
… okay, the audio isn’t right yet, but I’ve got the “subtracting” rough draft. Want to get times and division (which are so much simpler), but In the Meantime, Fractions are calling ’cause I’m doing a presentation 9/20 and 9/21. I’m more than a little curious as to whether it’ll get better than previous effort
August 25, 2011
… tho’ I am thinking of sticking to my site after putting the first handful up. Introducing positive and negative integers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OPANV75W-A Adding same signed integers – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkV-dHnDNAU Adding integers of different signs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT1CT4zr3i4
August 3, 2011
So! Not only can I break things up (and do one chunk of the powerpoint and save it, and then record another), but… it ***seems*** to have saved them in the same place, and let me put them back to back easily. Puh-lease let this be true!
August 1, 2011
I’ve got 30 days of Camtasia on the school ‘puter now… and then it will be In The Fall Semester and I should be able to get ‘em to put my school’s licensed version back. (So, dear reader, this is legit… TechSmith *has* received money for the software… I’ll talk like a pirate on September… [Read more…]
December 26, 2011
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