One of the best ways we can help our children learn mathematics (or anything else) is to be lifelong learners ourselves.
Here are a few stories to read as you sip your morning brew. . .
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This week’s rabbit hole started with a thought-provoking article from Dan Meyer…
“It would have been quite easy, nothing at all really, to share the epiphany with students, to share the short-cut, to tell my kid that these are all the even numbers and here is where you’ll find them…”
—Dan Meyer
Read more about the value of taking the harder long-cut in this fifth installment of professional development for homeschooling parents.
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