Few parents happily describe a family night at home with the words ‘editing’ and ‘essay’ in the same sentence. It seems that those two words drift into our lives at exactly the wrong moment. Maybe you started by taking the one night a week that the entire family is home and planning a game night. […]
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Join us for our monthly educator session. For the month of September we will be discussing community. What is community? Why do we seek out community? What’s the benefits of a local versus an online community? This is our course designed for educators to come together and discuss and learn from each other. For the
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First, let’s define some terms. What is supplementary? In mathematics, the term supplementary refers to the pair of angles that form a line. The sum of their angle measures is 180 degrees. Obviously, when we say ‘supplementary math’, we aren’t referring to angles. Rather, we are alluding to the need to supplement a main math
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On the heels of our post exploring the definition of ‘curriculum’. I thought that it would be beneficial to briefly address one of the most common mistakes that we make when choosing a specific program for our math students. First of all, we all choose to teach our children elementary arithmetic. That’s the official curriculum.
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What is Curriculum? When I was in college, I had a professor who was very adamant about the fact that curriculum is not a book. She would go around the room asking us to explain the curriculum for geometry or pre algebra. Then, she would get hysterical if we mentioned a specific book in our
