Sean finished Key to Algebra book 8 today! He had a little trouble with the first questions and got discouraged and started complaining about his memory. Mel Levine in the Myth of Laziness says it’s a good idea to listen carefully to childrens’ complaints about their own learning process. According to him, they often have [...]
Two from JoVE: Career/Life Planning One of the bad things about school and its relentless sequential model is that kids are asked as soon as they become teens to make decisions about what they want to do when they grow up and then told that the course choices they make in the next few years [...]
Math Thinking Sean is almost through with Book 6 of Key to Algebra. It is getting to feel like hard work. I remember getting to this point with Brendan when he used the series. I keep telling Sean that it gets to be second nature, factoring and simplifying, just like he can read now without [...]
Sean is getting close to the end of Key to Algebra book 6. He will easily finish by mid-month, even if he keeps going at a slower pace. He still spends about the same time per day on math — 20 minutes or a bit more — but it takes longer to get through a [...]
Here he is being a youngest “Son of Willa Elder“, photo and costume courtesy of his sister. The other big movie favorites around here recently have been: Captains Courageous Boys Town It’s a Mad Mad Mad World Arsenic and Old Lace Bells of St Mary Paddy has been a counting demon recently. He counts EVERYTHING, [...]
JoVE at Tricotomania writes about Math “Basically, there is a firm belief in the school system that you can’t move on until you have mastered everything in the current curriculum because it builds. Mighton started a charity called JUMP which provides tutorial support for remedial students. He has had remarkable success and has learned some [...]
I took the spring and summer completely off math hoping to get a better idea of how to do Living Math (HT JoVE at Tricotomania). I wanted to look at how math appeared in our daily lives. So I’m just going to list a few random things that happened: Paddy counting skittles with one [...]
