kitchen table math, the sequel

from the Sun : At least 10 Upper East Side nursery schools are closing their doors today to make time for a conference on an Italian teachin...

My wife and I just got back from our 15 minute parent-teacher meeting. We might have seemed rude, but we couldn't chitchat. We dived ri...

I think I'm going to take tonight off and spend my time raiding the Comments for new posts. from Myrtle: I've only recently discover...

When I get my life back, I am going to conquer logarithms. Thanks to Myrtle ( lots of cool stuff at Myrtle's blog - I need to get out m...

Mindless Math Mutterings posts the passage from Richard Elmore that has given me a formal term for the kind of affluent school district Will...

I had never heard of this book until Myrtle left this comment: Tracy Lee Simmons " Climbing Parnassus " is even more divergent. I...

I wanted to share information on an interesting experiment going on in Sumner County, Tennessee, and solicit predictions. One of my clients,...

Terrific post from Instructivist on the subject of memory and memorization. This is something I've struggled with: how to distinguish...

Anchoragegifted’s Weblog Last night I ran across the Anchorage School Districts Gifted Blog. It's a great idea for communication, but I...

Now, keeping in mind that I’m a second grade teacher and that MY American History teacher taught in the EXACT same manner as above and I don...

re: If WAC sweeps the country as I fear it may, we'll have our public schools producing kids who hate writing as much as they hate math ...

This is distressing news . Based on my own n of 1 , I'm sure David's original grades were correct. C's camp counselor last summe...

Will get the Sun story on Texas rejecting Everyday Math (subscription required, I presume) posted at some point (horse chapter takes prece...

They must have seen me coming.

Scarsdale to try new elementary math programs by Carrie Gilpin In an effort to "see what's out there,” Scarsdale is trying out four...

Speaking of test prep, Kerrigan is superb test prep for the essay portion of a standardized test. Amazing. C. wrote two practice test essays...

Some of you will remember back when we coached C., then age 10 I think, to answer all open-ended math questions with the words: I used a str...

wow This is news .

I came across what may be a terrific web site for non-math majors trying to teach the Singapore Math curriculum the other day: Teach Kids Ma...

From Baghdad, With Love by Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman with Melinda Roth The Haj by Leon Uris Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clark...