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Yes, I will dive in and look for more research on developmental mathematics… twitter got me a link to an article about how the more dual enrollment studetns you have in your gateway course, the worse people who aren’t dual enrolled will do. They did a whole lot of filtering and weeding to deal […]
December 11, 2019
(so I’ll share it here) — this post on the International Dyslexia Association’s page about math and programs. I *usually* agree with those 3 tenets on the side: Learn the facts! It’s okay to know one way to do a problem, not a zillion and … if it’s complex, mnemonics get you access to […]
December 10, 2019
tl/dr: boring daily minutiae I re-upped the bus pass this morning rather than try to skip a month on the annual pass…. it was all of 14 this morning and the forecast says a few degrees warmer tomorrow… and I’m 179 miles away from 5000 on the year. Also, things are quieter so the lure […]
December 9, 2019
… and assorted other “holiday season stuff.” So, too busy to figure out the “every nth number should have different background” … especially since it wasn’t too busy to make each number with a loop instead of making 100 divs, which … might change everything… and it might not. Read article in Guardian about […]
December 2, 2019
Yes, I’m doing the usual “back from break… where was I?” This is an abstractshared by Daniel Willingham on Twitter today, indicating that negative words as stimuli had a bad effect on remembering; neutral ones didn’t. I didn’t dig out the study (is it basically harder to remember negative things?)… but I peeked at […]
November 21, 2019
… so, seems the “fifth anniversary upgrade” at FreeCodeCamp … has issues. I’m told that it’s “bad timing” that nets me the “can’t log in from that IP address” error message… but … the timing is always bad and while I got in after clearing old files at work, it didn’t work at home. […]
November 17, 2019
Welp, I had said I’d allow 2 hours for figuring out how to open up the next fact when you’re done the first. It took longer, but I did it… and then realized that for purposes of seeing what it’s about, locking a user into that path would be pretty awful. I think the […]
December 12, 2019
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