kitchen table math, the sequel: word solving is not just word learning

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

And here's Dinah.

Anonymous said...: Taking "complicated" data and making it visual?

There's clearly a fortune to be made reinventing the wheel in education materials.

SusanS; March 12, 2008 at 5:34 AM
Anonymous said...: And it is kinesthetic .... how?

Jeeeeeeezzze.; March 12, 2008 at 8:13 AM
K9Sasha said...: I use letter tiles to have kids make words. In the ten minutes or so that it would take to make a foldable with three words on it, I could have a kid make and read 20 words using word tiles. It amazes me how many ways can be found to waste student learning time.; March 12, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Catherine Johnson said...: k9sasha - LETTER TILES SOUND LIKE A VERY GOOD IDEA TO ME

Watching the high school English teacher take 8 and a half minute NOT to teach the word "vex" (she gives only a dictionary definition, no examples of the word's use in texts) is mind-boggling.; March 12, 2008 at 10:15 AM
K9Sasha said...: Not only that, but I was bored enough by her presentation to walk away from the computer.; March 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM

kitchen table math, the sequel