What can you do if children really would benefit from some addition practice, but they aren’t particularly interested in practicing addition? Palindromic Addition is a “device” that can be introduced to the children on such occasions. I have found that it often leads to a sudden surge in addition practice!
There are skills associated with safely exploring nature, and elementary children find learning these skills to be irresistible.Even if their access to wild areas is limited or non-existent, they can apply the same skills to experiences in parklands, in gardens, and even in vacant lots.What follows are some notes on skills that can be introduced to elementary children ...
When “correcting” becomes “error analysis”, it becomes a tool for us, it enhances our work with the children, and we are using this old idea of “correction” in a way that supports each child’s self construction ...
One of the charts used as we tell The Story of Our Numerals depicts Ancient Greek Numerals. Upon inspection (and comparison with the text of the story), it seems that although the story states that the symbol used by the Ancient Greeks to represent the numeral “5” was pi (the first letter of the Ancient Greek word for five, pente), the chart, appears to depict the Greek letter gamma for the numeral 5! So what’s going on? The Ancient Greeks had 2 different numerals systems, one of which succeeded the other. First came the Acrophonic system (also called Attic or Herodian), then later,...