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Students sometimes say “I was taking the test and I thought of what you would say” (or sometimes “I remember you yelling at me, ‘THINK!'” the one time…) … or they’ve said “could we bring you with us… a cardboard you?” okay, anxiety is a real thing. What if students *could* bring some kind of […]
April 11, 2018
These are not in lieu of learning number sense and the times tables, but handy as an accommodation while learning higher level skills and concepts. Our Transitions and Pre-Algebra students get a 25 x 25 table in their course materials (our instructors make their own), and teach students how to use them, I have not […]
October 3, 2017
Okay, this blogpost about creepy twist to MAP test kinda hit home: the test is also supposed to measure students’ “engagement,” and the teacher was supposed to intervene because, it would seem, a student was clicking through too quickly and was therefore deemed “disengaged.” Well, the student just works that fast. Yes, there are teachers […]
July 24, 2017
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 […]
January 8, 2020
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