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Comment on About Chinese New Year and Chinese Mothers by leadinglight

leadinglight — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:27:47 +0000

I think I prefer Asian parenting. It motivates me when the going get tough. More often than not, Western parenting can be a bit soft. This was clear when I went to a local public school where I was one of the few kids who had an Asiatic background.

Comment on 10 Ways Incorporating Daily Activities Will Help Make Math Fun by 10 Ways to Make Math Fun « In Math Everyone is Equal

10 Ways to Make Math Fun « In Math Everyone is Equal — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:32:57 +0000

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Comment on Math Practice Makes Math Perfect by Dr. John R. Tapper

Dr. John R. Tapper — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:36:02 +0000

Practice is important… but not as important as conceptual insight. If you are practicing something you understand, I’m all about some regular practice. However, if the idea is that you’ll “train” your brain through practice, all you’ll learn is a procedure and you won’t actually be able to use your learning very much.

Comment on Motivation for Math – Is it Possible? by shana donohue

shana donohue — Mon, 03 May 2010 00:18:55 +0000

Go to a party and tell people you “can’t do math” and you’ll probably get a few “I can’t do math, either!” and maybe even a few high-fives. It’s like some sort of sick club. Go to that same party and exclaim, :I can’t read” and you certainly won’t get any high-fives.

I created a tool for kids to help them with the most confusing concept- negative numbers- that they face. Even my 11th grade students stumble on negative numbers more often than not. When you stumble, you’re not having fun, and when you’re not having fun, you’re likely to go find something else to do. I want kids to feel successful.

I hope you check out my blog, and my tool, at http://zerosumruler.wordpress.com . I’d love your feedback.

Comment on Learning math through practice by Tony

Tony — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:01:46 +0000

It would do well to make the learning process interesting through different modes of teaching. Kids can then use the “new” part of brain and as the information is stored in the “knowledge” part, kids start to learn math or for that matter any subject of learning.

Tony

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Comment on 10 Ways Incorporating Daily Activities Will Help Make Math Fun by goldstudentcom

goldstudentcom — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:04:51 +0000

Yes, Sudoku is basically a logic game, a number-placement puzzle. It helps children improve their logical thinking and problem solving skills – very useful for math.

Also, the puzzle can be investigated using mathematics, in particular combinatorics and permutation group theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_Sudoku

But the most important is, as I said before, that this kind of games and puzzles improve mental performance and problem solving capabilities.

Comment on 10 Ways Incorporating Daily Activities Will Help Make Math Fun by luckytoilet

luckytoilet — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:31:22 +0000

Kakuro perhaps, but how does Sudoku have _anything_ to do with math? It involves logic, yes, but taking that as math is complete nonsense.

Comment on 10 Ways to Tell Your Child Needs Help in Math by CogitoErgoCogitoSum

CogitoErgoCogitoSum — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:38:25 +0000

• Your child does well, but only through rote memorization of the material, and cannot explain why any math works. The child is fail to grasp larger concepts later if they lack the conceptual understanding of the more basic material. Nip it in the bud while you can.

Comment on Why is Math Important? by CogitoErgoCogitoSum

CogitoErgoCogitoSum — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:35:30 +0000

Dont forget about capitalist greed… the foundations of our society. Profit maximizing, loss minimizing, cost/benefit analysis, risk assessment. Even in debate and rhetoric and philosophy, the capacity to reason logically is important.

Comment on 10 Ways Math Can Help Your Child’s Future by luckytoilet

luckytoilet — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:44:26 +0000

Perhaps, but in ‘everyday life’ applications, arithmetic should be enough. Algebra at most. All of the higher order math would be irrelevant for everyday applications. Not to say they are useless.