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1 Speaking Skills
2 Reading and Writing Skills
3 Preparing for Science Studies
4 Learning Takes Time and Effort
5 Patience Please for Yourself and Your Charges
6 Discipline Who is in Charge Conserving Authority
7 Student Motivation
8 The Effect of Negative Remarks
9 Streaming by Student Cooperation
10 Ends values for work study instruction
11 Help and Defend Your Child or Teens Education
12 Goals and Objectives For Mathematics
13 Addition and Addition Tables
14 Multiplication and Times Tables
15 Counting For Parents
16 Secondary Mathematics Tips
17 Math Booklets for children and young teenagers
18 Primary School Mathematics
19 Extending the Oral Dimension of Mathematics
20 Calculus Oriented Highschool Mathematics Winners and Orphans Take I
21 Calculus Oriented Highschool Mathematics Winners and Orphans Take II
22 Student Centered Highschool Mathematics
23 Modularized Skill Development Modularized Rigor
23 Modularized Skill Development Modularized Rigor Take II
23 Modularized Skill Development Modularized Rigor Take III
23 Modularized Skill Development Modularized Rigor Take IV
24 Standards For Skill Develoment
24 Standards For Skill Develoment Take II
25 Mathematics Education Leaving A Good Impression
27 Graduated Correction and Penalties for Young Offenders
Home-Tutoring and Home-Schooling
Notes for Parents (and teachers and tutors)
Webpages 20 onward represents essays in draft form on which way to go in
mathematics education, how and why. They remain to be rewritten or consolidated.
In the mean-time, comments are welcome. Each level of an art or discipline
needs to be described in a manner that is clear and rational
to adults, parents and teachers included, who have mastered the art or discipline to that level or beyond.
Speaking Skills suggests how
to improve the speaking and listening skills of your child.
Reading &
Writing offers ideas for the development of these skills.
Preparing for
science -Teaching a boy or girl to cook or to follow any multi-step
method precisely, in a repeatable and reproducible manner, will help in
science and all area of work and study.
Learning Takes Time
and Effort: Four Things for a Student to Know. Quote in full of an
article from Speaking of Learning that refers back to words at this
site, no longer online.
Patience
Please. Reflects the inductive idea that learning takes time. If
you see a difficulty, you need to identify the source and retreat
before it in order to practice skills that restore confidence and then
to practice skills that remove the source of the difficulty. Teaching,
tutoring or parenting takes time and patience. Good luck. Nothing is
certain.
Who is in
Charge? For better or worse, you the parent or guardian may be the
first and longest term instructor of your child. Do your best
Parents and teachers need to say no for small things of little
consequence to build and maintain authority to say no for larger
matters. Parental authority: ; use it or lose it.
Student Motivation Here a
discussion of the challenge. Not the solution. ;
Students with parents who
say mathematics mastery is important, or education in general is
important, will ; often have more goals, more will and more staying
power in school and college - no guarantees here -but is part of the
solution.
Talk to Your Child
or Teen. For many, those without learning difficulties, the will
to learn is often more important than ability. Encourage the will.
; That is part of the solution.
Discipline in
Schools: Streaming by Student Cooperation. Societies that want
quality education will preserve the authority of teachers in the
classroom, while providing safeguards so that the that teachers do not
abuse that authority. In the first instance, students may be streamed
by their willingness to cooperate with teachers, and then by their
academic destination. People with good education will not want to go
into classrooms if [A.] student disrespect is a constant danger; and
[B] present-day course design in their discipline areas is inconsistent
and irrational according to their previous training in the discipline.
Uniform standards in education are mixed blessing. While in the first
instance they raise standards, over time central planning or
bureaucratization may lead to those standards being lowered. In large
enough regions, different school systems should develop their own
standards, with multiple independent centers for course and curriculum
design, each trying to offer a different design, each staff in a way
that rejuvenation is continuous or mass retirement in one is not
simultaneous with mass retirerment in another.
Work
& Study Ends, Values and Methods. These appear to be missing in
schools.
Parents
Need to Follow & Supervise the Education of their Child or
Teen.
If your child falls behind, provide extra help during the school year
or during summer vacations. Ask your school for a list of observable
skills that it and you should be verify. If there is no list, form one
alone or with other parents. If ; there is no list of observable
skills, your child school system has no idea where it is heading. It is
lost. ; ;
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For home-tutoring or -schooling, or for schools or colleges
with course content control: Secondary
Mathematics for Ages 11+, A Practical Approach.
May 2012, Composition Starting:
Pre-School and Primary Mathematics - Quantitative Skills, An
Intellectual View, Feedback Welcome:
The 8 Most Popular Site Inlinks
Parent Center: Help your child or teen
learn:
Parent-friendly
Work Booklets for ages 3+ to 13 Use these or others to check
or build skills. Other booklets are available but these booklets
allow parents unsure of themselves in mathematics to help their
children. The selection acquired in Canada is published in the
USA. So it has a US orientation. In retrospect, the selection
shows parents what to check with the booklets or by other ways,
the choice is theirs. But in retrospect, the selection does not
cover integral and fractions liquid weights and measures - ask
the publishers to correct that! For ages 9 to 12 say, parents may
compensate by showing boys and girls how to use weights or mass,
and further measures in food preparation. Beyond that children
may be shown how to measure and calculate angles, lengths and
areas [proportional amounts too] directly or by using maps and
plans drawns to scale. Learning how to gather and measure all the
ingredients, pots and pans for a dish or a meal, along with
cleaning up sets the stage for like activities or experiments in
science courses, and in developing organizational skills,
gives boys and girls a head start. Good luck. At the other
extreme, more comprehensive than light, if your motto is
McCainian: drill, drill, drill then Toronto
mathematician and actor John Mighton's jump math organization has jump math
workbooks for at least grades 3 to 8 for at-home and in-school
use - training sessions for teachers available. Jump math has
been expanding to cover older students. Jump Math Samples: plus
Fractions for
Grades 3-4 & Grades 5-6 [Read] Free Resources grades 1 to 8
[unread - likely to be good]. and
Mathematics
Skills For Ages 3 to 14 - technical!
Skills with take
home value - A few ideas
Basic skills include
time-date-calendar Matters; money matters; map, plan and
scale diagram matters;counting, measuring and figuring;
decision making with logic and likelyhood; being careful and
being aware of the domino effect of mistakes; reading and
writing with precision.
Is your child able to add, subtract and multiply amounts
of money, work with fractions, work with clocks and calendars,
work with maps and plans, and measure length, weight-mass and
volume? Schools may promote your son or daughter without
providing basic skills in reading, writing and
arithmetic.
Arithmetic
and Number Theory Skills
Algebra
Starter Lessons
Geometry
- maps plans trigonometry vectors
More
Algebra
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Calculus Starter Lessons
Calculus Lessons Elsewhere:
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How to Ace Calculus: Street Wise Guide - Mostly
Text.
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Flash
Video for Calculus Phobics
They cover basic topics in ways likely to complement your
notes, your textbooks and site material. When Goldilocks
trespassed in the house of the three bears, she found three bowls
of porridge, two not to her liking, and one just right. Different
bears have different tastes. As invited guest here and elsewhere,
if one or more explanations is not to liking, try another. It may
be better or just right.
Unsolicited Advice
Learning to do and high marks if it comes to easy is often
deceptive - light rather than deep. For that reason, students
with learning difficulties determined not to let it get in their
way may go deeper and farther than those with none. High marks,
if the come easy, may be deceptive - provide a too light and not
a deep mastery. That could have been your problem in secondary
school, one that leads to comprehension shock or difficulties in
calculus and more generally in the first year of college. Bon
Appetite.
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