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Yes, this is definitely in the “trick” category but it’s to keep from going down a path one has been down so many times before. I got to watch this happen this morning… reverting back to adding across, top and bottom… but it’s in the “so goofy it might stick” category. Part Two: Okay, […]
July 10, 2017
This is CC-By 🙂 🙂 This is a classic video about a workshop to inspire empathy and understanding for people with learning disabilities. It’s decades old but much can be learned from it.
January 13, 2017
New student today: no, he’s not enrolled for the spring. That’ll be fall. He’s done some college but … math was the dealbreaker. Anxiety. Yes. He can come in here, we can have a reading and a math ‘course.’ YES I want to make an online “course” for exactly this “I’m […]
June 6, 2016
On my twitter feed, Steve Wyborney posted an awesome little graphic which I am stealing and posting below: He asks that if somebody uses it in K-2, to “take a pic of your board and send my way!” Then there’s the awesome Donna Boucher who has all kinds of resources on her site for making […]
March 31, 2016
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/is-memorisation-a-good-strategy-for-learning-mathematics_5jm29kw38mlq-en;jsessionid=31h5ad0xxb10g.x-oecd-live-03 “PISA finds that 15-year-olds commonly use memorisation to learn mathematics. But if you think memorisation is most widely used in the East Asian countries that share a Confucian heritage and are “known” for rote learning, think again. Fewer 15-year-olds in Hong Kong-China, Japan, Korea, Macao-China, Shanghai-China, Chinese Taipei and Viet Nam reported that […]
August 17, 2014
Just another example of “No, people are supposed to be terrified of numbers!” on NPR this morning. http://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340944712/is-there-an-echo-in-here 4:30 Will Shortz introduces this weeks “number puzzle,” a “not very hard” one, in his words. The puzzle has a six-ring target with assorted numbers that you’d score for hitting it, which I don’t recall. (I think […]
July 24, 2017
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