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Saturday, December 22, 2007
a question most 8th graders miss
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Maria has $5.00 more than Joseph. Together they have $37.50. Which of these equations would you use to find the amount of money Joseph has? ...
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today's factoid
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How many teachers in the U.S.? 3,000,000 according to Gadfly
Direct Instruction post at Fordham
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check yourself before you wreck yourself Fordham draws the familiar analogy between scripting in medicine and scripting in education: do you...
seamless (w)holes
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from instructivist : [ Carolyn once said that math was "a seamless whole" inside her head,...] I don't know if this ties in w...
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book club
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We may need to form a book club for interested folks. I say this selfishly because I need people to help me brainstorm my way through Karen ...
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Rote Learning in Core Knowledge, An Example
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Last week, my son came home from school with a study sheet for the last big test for the year. The test covered some basic US geography, in...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
fight the power
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Math is hard. Didn't Barbie say that?
Mr. Percent
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I'm having way too much fun.
how to pronounce ISEE
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I - see Now you know. On the other hand, if you go around calling the ISEE the I-S-E-E, people do know what you're talking about.
personal narrative
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from Tracy W : Okay, I love my calculator. Sharp EL-5120. It's on my desk at the moment. It's not much to look at, but its functiona...
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SAT problem
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YouTube rules.
I love this guy
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But I still need a percent chart.
help desk - percent chart
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Is there an all-around mode of charting the values in percent problems similar to the charting taught for distance problems?
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this one's fun
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During a sale, a bookstore sold 1/2 of all its books in stock. On the following day, the bookstore sold 4,000 more books. Now, only 1/10 of ...
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This problem can't be done. Right? Not enough information Or way too much information, as the case may be. Two trains are loaded with eq...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Center for Environmental Therapeutics
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A psychiatrist friend of mine recommends this web site . She says it has a self-administered diagnostic test for seasonal affective disorder...
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Enhancing Academic Motivation
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I've just ordered Enhancing Academic Motivation from Research Press thanks to a friend of mine whose child is seeing Dr. Brier. Every ...
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Rye Country Day
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wow---- School says that since 1996, 97% of kids taking the Advanced Placement BC Calculus course received perfect scores on the AP exam. H...
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
still can't do fractions?
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Tom Loveless is back: The 2007 NAEP test results showed small but statistically significant gains in both math and reading. Mathematics scor...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Spellbound
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wonderful perfect especially for Christmas or the Fourth of July! Spellbound
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