How do we get our kids to develop a good work ethic when we don’t live on a farm? This is a question have repeatedly asked myself for years. Honestly I bring it up a lot in the hopes that my dream for a small farm will get pushed into reality, but I digress. I […]
If I’m focused on justifying what I’m learning by the necessity of my need to use it, then I’ll naturally seek to learn the things that I need in order to do the things that I want. We may argue that we do not seek to only teach our children that which they seem to
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When I first started teaching mathematics, the elephant in the room was always the mantra, ‘when am I ever going to use this in life?’ Now that we’ve been exploring the language of mathematics together for years, I don’t hear this question very much at all. However, the worldview or hidden assumption behind this question
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I get buyer’s remorse, but in reverse. I pat myself on the back for a job well done of leaving a store without buying any unnecessary items, and then halfway home, I get that familiar pang of regret that I have left something behind that, seemingly, would have fulfilled me. This month, it was black
In the Lost Tools of Writing we learn about the five common topics. These topics are 5 categorical questions that we ask in order to invent something. Asking questions is essential for thinking. I tell my children that there is a world of difference between the man who enters a room saying, “this is nice”
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