kitchen table math, the sequel

This is from Children of the Code (I've added some paragraphing)-- the whole interview is called "How Reading Works and What It Do...

I checked out Spanish by Association and I can see why you're liking it. I was raised in a bi-lingual home and so, never experienced le...

anonymous left a link to a third article on the situation in Palo Alto, a news story containing this passage: At Monday's meeting they ...

In my other child's private school, the advisor is a great system. It's one of your child's teachers. If you think your child is...

Seeing as how CT has apparently mandated advisories in middle school , it's time to post this article by Daniel Deitte (pdf file) : Whe...

Jimmy is moving to a group home on Monday, and I am so sad. Christian and C. keep saying, "It's like going to college." Sort o...

I've been using gestures for many years in my algebra classes, but I had no idea there was research backing them up. I only knew that ge...

My son told me yesterday that in "Advisory" they had to fill out a form about their learning styles, along with answering many oth...

Anonymous left a link to this new study by Susan Goldin-Meadow and her colleagues: ABSTRACT—How does gesturing help children learn? Gesturin...

This system of ours has failed the elite kids, too. This is a little known fact because it wasn’t emphasized very much, but in the early TIM...

from Concerned: I've been on a few textbook selection committees over the years. In the last 10-12 years, there's been a real push t...

I started taking martial arts classes over the summer. Before doing anything fun, we spent the first couple weeks entirely on footwork. Two...

Following the Palo Alto, I find this comment from "5th grade teachers ": At the 1st Committee meeting: 5th grade teachers preferre...

Unfortunately, parents won't really understand until they see the work coming home. At my son's previous school one parent (with a m...

A blog post on Palo Alto . ignoring parents in Palo Alto welcome to the Grand Canyon a teacher-mom on Everyday Math the plot thickens enligh...

Posted by RWD, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood, 10 hours ago To me, the ignorant statements are the ones made by math commit...

The Palo Alto textbook selection committee has voted for Everyday Math . Before the secret ballot was taken, committee members summarized t...

comment left by anonymous: I know a recently retired high-school teacher with 40 years of experience and an excellent reputation among both ...

Susan Godsland is a new member of kitchen table math. I had discovered her terrific web site -- dyslexics.org.uk -- two months ago and now...

[U]nderstanding and mastery are tightly linked. Curricula like Everyday Math try their best to unlink them. They think that understanding co...