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I work w/ lots and lots of people who haven’t learned stuff like times tables. It’s a whole lot like decoding in reading. If you’re not teaching decoding, then … if decoding is a cognitive load, take the load away. Find another delivery system. However! It’s worth learning to decode! It’s worth learning to read. […]
March 18, 2019
It’s interesting to me that they’ve found MP2, MP7 and MP8 to be deeper and more challenging: (“Reason abstractly and qualitatively,” “Look for and make use of structures,” “Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.”) I’m imagining the very different experience this would provide a student — tho’ it could be terrifying. 3 […]
March 2, 2019
Signed contract received yesterday (dated yesterday). SO things could really actually get interesting soon 🙂 In the meantime … times tables! And hte usual Saturday reading. From our Developmental Ed Council meeting, which was about the law being proposed to basically eliminate developmental education and put everybody into college level courses “with support.” I didn’t […]
December 10, 2018
Jack Rotman is a developmental math maven and involved in creating clearer paths for students through college math demands. This blog about striving to reach 100% of our students expresses my thinking when I’m looking at the stuff that inspired my “thread” about “successes” in developmental math. To wit:
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 3, 2018
Yesterday I got out of the building *just* after six (when my workday ends Tuesdays), b/c the fire alarm was insisting we depart. Guiding a student to the bus stop (finding it from the closest exit a challenge) I met w/ a math instructor wondering how to best handle students who were overwhelmed by fractions […]
March 19, 2019
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