#Elementary Math Learning

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Unknowingly naming my blog after something I'd get obsessed with 3 years in advance.

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[themontessoriacademyofarlington]

Early Childhood - Hundred Board Extension

The Hundred Board is a familiar Montessori material used to help students understand numerical order and patterns. Typically, students place tiles numbered 1 to 100 in sequence on the board. However, in this extension activity, this student is creatively exploring the concept of diagonal patterns. She carefully places the tiles diagonally, starting from 1 and progressing to 100. After arranging the tiles, she writes the numbers down on paper that has a matching grid. By engaging in this diagonal arrangement and transcription, she discovers new patterns and relationships between numbers, further reinforcing her understanding of numerical order and enhancing her fine motor skills.

[maths-screaming]

Some Thoughts on How Much My Early Math Education Sucked

In my last post, I noted that I've been learning a lot about how much my early math education sucked.

First: That's wildly ironic to me, given how I got into my elementary school in the first place.

I was a hyperlexic nerd child. Interested in everything and picked up reading and languages with almost no visible effort.

My parents knew this and were keen to support it. Being too poor to send me to a private school, did the next best thing: They interrogated every school district within driving distance of their respective jobs, looking for the one that would do the most to challenge me as a reader.

I landed in the district that made the best case. At the time, it was also one of the top performing districts in one of the top performing states in the US.

This was before "school choice" existed, so my dad moved to the new district solely to put me in this school. He slept on the living room floor of a one-bedroom apartment so I could get the best language education we could access. (Props to my dad.)

The irony is that I landed in the best possible school for my hyperlexia...and a terrible one for my dyscalculia.

Second: I don't think the bad math education was the fault of the teachers or the district. It makes no sense to me that a school would be on the cutting edge of one subject and a failure in another.

Rather, I think the school's chosen curricula were both the best the 1970s and 1980s had to offer. It's just that the school retained phonics as it was going out of style, recognizing its effectiveness, but it was still stuck in the math equivalent of whole-word instruction - as everyone would be until the 2000s.

Kids are generally adaptable. A lot of them will figure stuff out from poor or incomplete instruction. Humans do be like that: we're curious, meddlesome beasts who enjoy extrapolating even (especially?) when we are bad at it.

It's when you get the combo of "bad instruction" and "can't adapt because brain difference" that you get really bad results. Like how I was 42 years old and needed a cartoon child to explain to me that 6 + 8 and 10 + 4 are the same total.

[pureheartservant]

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[antisisyphus]

i wish i could go back in time and teach myself math in a fun way

[courcgecus]

Elizabeth, lived her life in the countryside without need of learning to even read Jonathan: My love, let me tell you about blablablablabla -mathphysicsliteracymachineselectricityspacetime...-

Elizabeth: What a fascinating man.

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An Indian Raja made a deal to give a girl named Rani one grain of rice doubled each day for 30 days. This beautiful story is a wonderful mathematical inquiry! With grade four children, we explored this book in depth. How many grains of rice did Rani receive after 30 days? Did she make a good deal? Lots of great discussion and addition operations emerged from this exploration!

[intothestacks]

Cool Board Games for Your Library

Dino Math Tracks – $33 CAD

Type: Board Game Players: 2-4 Mechanics: Dice Rolling Playtime: 15 min Age: 6+ Skills You Practice: Addition, Multiplication, Place Value

A game that can be adjusted to learn a variety of math skills at various difficulty levels where the goal is to get your dinosaurs to safety by answering math questions.

Why it’d be good for a library collection:

Family-friendly

Simple difficulty level

Cheap

Educational

Variable game difficulty

I had this game as a kid and I loved it -- and I've always hated math due to having dyscalculia so that's saying something.

[loganremade]

i have to brush up my math skills because hoooly i was fucking confused in the algebra 1 class i helped with today

[gnaga37]

actually deciding to change how you write letters and numbers is very easy and fun <3

[spikeisawesome456]

Have we all just forgotten the actual definition of square here???

I love seeing a meme and being like oh, tumblrs going to love this one

[themontessoriacademyofarlington]

Lower Elementary - Small Bead Frame Multiplication

The Small Bead Frame is a hands-on material that helps students understand the concept of place value and the mechanics of mathematics. By manipulating the beads, children can see the concrete representation of abstract numbers, making it easier for them to grasp the process of carrying and combining units, tens, hundreds, and thousands. This student is very focused while completing 4-digit by 1-digit multiplication problems using the Small Bead Frame.

[technicolorxsn]

I forgot how annoying writing triangle congruence proofs is

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🎉 Alice's Guide to Conquering Multi-Step Word Problems! 🎉

By Alice Hey everyone! It’s me, Alice, your favorite snack expert, treasure hunter, and sometimes math student. Today, I have big news: Big Sister Ariel has written a mind-blowingly smart paper about multi-step word problems! 😲 Now, when I first heard “multi-step word problems,” I thought, “Ugh. That sounds like too many steps. Why can’t math just take one step?” But Ariel said multi-step word…