Actress Danica McKellar is probably best known for playing the part of Winnie, “the girlfriend” on “The Wonder Years” in the eighties. It was a brilliant show, and now she has written what promises to be a brilliant book. With the subtitle, “How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail,” [...]
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I never got into Harry Potter much. Read the first book, saw a couple of movies. They seem pretty good, just not my thing. I just don’t like that kind of magic. I’m not being silly here, either. The “wave your wand and say a spell” is so antithetical to the kind of magic [...] Make your own Cardboard Abax Educators just love buzz words. One of the most frequently used buzzwords in math ed. is “manipulatives.” Of course, the greatest manipulatives there are, are your hands and fingers. (Ever wonder why they call them “digits?”) In the last post, I talked about basic addition. The links lead [...] After having spent some time trying to find the best way to deliver some MathMojo, I have arrived, so far, at podcasting. But not that old “audio-only” stuff. I’ve made an “enhanced podcast” about the very basics of addition, which you can access here. (whoops, that site is down. I’ll try to get this fixed soon. [...] |
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