thread N + 1 sort of

I can’t find the article I found yesterday saying California is going to make it *really* hard to place students in “remedial” math. I found this older article about “clamping down further” though. Like the rest of the articles, it completely, utterly ignores the fact that students don’t know enough math and/or English, implying that […]

Lurking at a meeting about enrollment and financial aid. I knew our enrollment had gone up this fall — but not that it was the firs time since 2010. Lots of happiness because there is LOTS of financial aid…. “flush with money.” … then she says that the returning enrolment is down. Now, I’m not […]

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OKAY!!! I successfully did a re-do of my video teaser in less than an hour and uploaded it and fixed the title. No, I don’t like that I left spaces in the title. Yes, that’s a door closing in the middle of it. No, I’m not sending it to them five minutes after I need […]

Orton Gillingham Meets Order of Operations

Yes, I’m prepping my presentation and YES I NEED TO GET THE TEASER DONE. I’m at the “but I have to include this,. too!!” stage, especially since I am wandering through so many old files of little half-done things, such as a truly crappy-quality video about the order of operations. I remember a great tweetstorm […]

Found article, sort of

In 2021 Rachel Lambert blogged about math research that, when it was being done on students with disabilities, skewed hard towards quantitative and behavioral measures, and away from constructivist and sociocultural. Oops, the article I am trying to find is about how students are *taught* procedures so much more than concepts. It occurred to me […]

They can and will think about math

Just helped a pre-algebra student with “translate the words,” with “two less than the product of 7 and hank’s savings, use s for hank’s savings.” I asked “what’s one less than 10?” “Nine.” “Did we do 1-10?” No. So, think: less comes last… 7s – 2. I went on to say “if it’s more than, […]

Stats and logic accessibility

I was helping a person in Stats 107. They have to answer assorted questions about sets and subsets. Later on there will be ridiculously complicated logic questions. They will learn a pretty nifty strategy for setting up a table and working through them. I was thinking that it’s really helpful to also understand that okay, […]