K-6 Math

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32 3 14,684 242 What, you don’t know what I’m telling you? These num­bers don’t mean any­thing to you? Ran­dom num­bers. That’s what they seem to be. You could prob­a­bly guess a mean­ing for each of these num­bers.  But, you’d be guess­ing, you would­n’t know.  As far as argu­ing or mak­ing a state­ment, we don’t

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Making Math Fun : Math Adventure Books

When stu­dents are in the gram­mar stage of learn­ing, pic­ture books and read­ing aloud take cen­ter stage.  Accord­ing to the clas­si­cal tra­di­tion, stu­dents in the gram­mar stage are repet­i­tive crea­tures.  They love to read the same books over and over and often end up mem­o­riz­ing large chunks of infor­ma­tion.  Through rep­e­ti­tion, these chil­dren eas­i­ly memorize

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