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Starting Points: Building Story Problems
I was reading a blog post recently about how 90% of students dislike story problems. Parents ask me about this in email and it came up in my old Facebook group. What do we do about story problems and how
Continue readingMATHCamp: Avoid The Brain Drain
Summer slide is real and from all accounts, pretty serious. The reading slides are fairly easily remedied, get yourself to the library and get some good books to read. But what about math? Who wants to
Continue readingDeconstructing Numbers with Cuisenaire Rods
I keep telling people that the Gattegno books are a guide. Grab a notebook and learn along with your kids. You don’t know where it will take you. We’ve been attempting to work through Gattegno’s
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