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Whole Number Division with Semi-Concrete Base Ten Blocks

4 Comments / Teaching Math, Technology in Education /

Helping children develop conceptual understandings, making math learning relevant, and integrating discovery and skills-based learning are all important. In the blog post The First Steps in Developing Conceptual Understanding of Place Value I shared my 2nd grade grandson’s experience in learning two and three digit addition and subtraction.  He had been learning to add and subtract digits […]

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Relevance: Discovery, Skills-based, and Manipulatives

4 Comments / Teaching Math /

Recently I penned My Last Math Class and shared how I made math learning real for an unique group of students.  Following on its heels, I shared information on the 3 R’s —Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships— coined in 2010 by The International Center for Leadership in Education. Now I want to expand this theme into another area

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Does It Take a ‘Th.D.’ to Understand the Pythagorean Theorem or Just an Internet Search?

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“Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers.  And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have,” as stated by the Wizard from Oz in 1939.  According to him, a Th.D. diploma (Doctor of Thinkology) is

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