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math is not a crime

December 29, 2011

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Hacking through cyberspace, I have been. I’ve found “math for grownups” (http://www.mathforgrownups.com ) and “the math mom” (http://www.themathmom.com), and “elevated math.” I’m afraid I deposited my apprehensions about the Magic of Flipped Classrooms on that blog, and once again got the feeling of that void between People Who KNow and Love Math and … the […]

Link o’ the day…

December 27, 2011

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For a shorter reading, omit the passages in brackets 🙂 (I’ve been trying to keep better track of how I find things. This trail: Find the “tools for understanding” at PUget Sound that purports to integrate technology into math — and emphasizes that it’s *not* a curriculum, not to be used sequentially — as in, […]

“why can’t students get the concept of math?”

December 27, 2011

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I’ve uploaded that article from the International Dyslexia Association’s Perspectives on Language and Literacy. Print versions of that included a generous permission statement; now, there’s nothing to be seen. The author replied to my email saying sharing was fine with her tho’ she wasn’t sure she was the one to ask. The article doesn’t say […]

dyscalculia no more

December 26, 2011

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… 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 […]

Discalculia

December 26, 2011

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… it’s an interesting search term. I shouldn’t be surprised at how many scraper sites use it with clickable links on 30 day loans in the midst of garbled phrases. ‘Tis the Monday of “Christmas Break.” I’m accountable to nobody 🙂 Think it’s time for a quick bike ride and then some focused time on […]

separating anxiety from math

December 24, 2011

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Minor revelation

December 24, 2011

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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. […]

Scraper sites

December 24, 2011

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I can’t think of the phrase without starting to sing “riding on my scraper bike,” a much more charming entity. I got a reference to my site from scoop.it and decided to check it out. I used one of my less common email addresses in case it turns out too weird for words. I can’t […]

Mnemonics?!?

December 23, 2011

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WHat with riding home yesterday and it occurring to me (if I remember correctly, from a completely unrelated mind drift) that all this stuff I would *like* to do with the videos such as having choices to make and going someplace differently if you missed a question… could be done on plain, old, everyday web […]

Next two

December 22, 2011

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… and it’s 4:30, and I’m done — at least to Pretty Good stage — with adding and subtracting integers, the Big Hard Thing in Chapter ONe. Subtracting positive from negative integers and the real strange one… subtracting negative integers…