Category: Course 3 – Advanced

Rote learning is defined as the memorization of information based on repetition. It is not considered higher-level thought or critical thinking, the creativity in students is stunted and suppressed, and students do not learn how to think. So Rote Learning has gotten a bad rap in education circles. Rote learning can work if these 3…

Question: Round 478 to the nearest Hundred. Common way to teach it: Thee steps work, the but the student has not developed his number sense one bit. Worse, it turns math into memorizing one multi-step procedure after another. What fun is that? We do that over and over again and then wonder why our kids…

The Sled Drag is new for me. Not my usual workout. When my trainer first added it to my workout routine, I struggled to drag the weights. Being the driven person that I am, I would not be defeated and took big strong steps to budge the weights. Now, I know that what works best…

I’ve taught hundreds of children 1st to 8th grade. And I wish they’d argue with me more. When I enthusiastically give them a tip that when they add 2 + 7, it’s easier to count up from the bigger number, or when I show them that 6 + 7 is the same as 6 doubled…

Hippocrates’s quote, “First, do no harm” is the tenet of the practice of medicine. When it comes to teaching math, sometimes, it’s more effective to “First, do harm”. Before I teach a child a new concept, I probe to see where the child’s understanding is. Sometimes, I learn a child has had a deep-seated misconception…

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