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Last week a student came in to prep for assessment. I was ‘snatching myself bald-headed’ saying, “no, finish the assessment. If you don’t know it, *then* you’ll get to practice it.” No, the student really really really wanted to get things right based on fragments of misremembered procedures… I was bemoaning that procedural background (not […]
October 28, 2018
Whereas, my well-tagged adding video got visits and average watch time was over a minute (whole thing is 2:04)… absolute value is way ahead of everybody else… it’s also well tagged including the word “khan.” Time for an experiment 🙂 … also awash in cool resources. New York’s TABE concepts is a good summary, although […]
October 26, 2018
It’s 4:36 but I’m going to start making *playlists* of what I have in Youtube as a Thing I Can Do When I Don’t Have Time To DO Anything, an d… I noticed my “beginning of addition facts” gets hits. I’m going to try to use NanoWrimo as a “go crazy in November and get […]
October 26, 2018
In the “no, this wasn’t how I learned it, but it’s better” category: When figuring out decimal places, start with 1 just as you would with the whole numbers. There can only be 1 “1,” right? IF it was 10/10 that would be the same as 1… it is grounded more in the concepts and […]
October 13, 2018
This was the final session that I attended (2;45-345; I bugged out 3:30 b/c taxi comign at 4:00). It seems to me that the folks who want to “decolonize” things tend to be in the humanities or the more tech-oriented ones (yes, there were fascinating sessions about data analysis and privacy… the “access code” barriers […]
October 13, 2018
Not really a brain dump b/c I’m not going to spend that much time. Maybe. (9:20 here.) My theme: math was everywhere. I’m going to work backwards. Lots of conference ppl on all the plane trips. We are economic impact! Wonder if somebody would work w/ our airport so we could have it here w/o […]
October 10, 2018
Editable Presentation Document – first session the document for my roundtable tomorrow. Editable Presentation Document – second session is another copy of the same one for the second half. Annotated LIst of Adult Ed Math Resources – Oercommons.org Last Post (with links to previous) of summary of research on adult ed and math
November 14, 2018
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