During the last two weeks in class, we discussed the concept of innovation. How do inventors think of new things? How does one go about developing a new idea? How are new inventions marketed? The students were very excited about creating their own new inventions and drawing prototypes on paper. I traversed the room, admiring [...]
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Before we can teach how to write, we must know how to write, and write well. This is the hardest part of teaching. How can we critique a student’s writing and give effective feedback, if we don’t know writing well enough that we can make sense of what doesn’t work and why it doesn’t work? [...]
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We had a math emergency at my house the other day. I teach math to fifth graders, and since my son has taken trigonometry and pre-calculus, I assumed that he and my husband could both handle everyday household math. I was wrong. Chaos ensued. We have very few vices in my household, but one [...]
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