By Evgeny Milyutin and Lisa Meyer Put yourself in a students’ shoes for a minute. Imagine that throughout your whole life, the only language you’ve heard or spoken is Spanish. You’re from a rural town in Honduras, the only home you know, and then at age six your family moved to the USA....
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I spend a lot of time in early childhood classrooms, and, as the headline suggests, I have gotten to a point where I cannot sit through one more moment of Calendar Time. It is difficult to select what makes me most crazy about this practice: ● Is it that too often Calendar Time takes up...
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Getting correct answers does not support conceptual understanding. We need to shift away from the practices of rewarding students whose learning style and personality are compatible with algorithms, following steps, and getting-answers. Getting answers does not support conceptual understanding...
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It always makes me sad when I go into primary grades classrooms during mathematics and see slumped shoulders, bowed heads, and even tears. In many ways, I find it entirely improbable that as a society we’ve been able to put together two things as inherently joyful as children and mathematics and...
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As a student, I was one of those kids who sort of caught on quickly to algorithms. I was “good” at math. As an adult, I realize that had nothing to do with my intelligence; instead, it was - and still is - more of a reflection of my personality. As I come to research and understand more about...
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