Khan Academy, one the best tools I have found for learning math concepts, is a completely free website designed to teach kids basic concepts through video lessons, and quizzes to check their comprehension. The videos and quizzes are all laid out in a logical progression based on grade level and topic. Kids can use Khan […]
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Oh, how I love ST Math. My kids don’t quite love it as much as I do, but they have benefitted greatly from using it. ST Math teaches in a unique way. It teaches math concepts (and math facts as) completely without words. The ST in ST Math stands for spacial-temporal. Spacial refers to the
Make it stick : the science of successful learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel This book gives you the tools to understand how learning happens, how learning is often misunderstood, and how to be a better learner yourself and how to help your kids learn. Interspersed with the science
Our kids’ minds are made up of two parts: working memory and long-term memory. Working memory is where they do all their thinking. What we generally call learning is really the act of information moving from our kids’ working memory into their long-term memory. We can also say that the working memory is where our
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Why Don’t Students Like School? : a cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom by Daniel T. Willingham Who’s it for? Teachers for sure. But also parents who want to understand what is going on in their child’s mind while they are at school (or
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