Reading and Writing
For Reading
Your young child needs to master the alphabet and
recognize the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. You can use cue
cards (or pieces of paper) with these letters and number written on them,
and ask him or her to identify each symbol as it shown. An erasable
surface may serve instead for the writing of symbols to be recognized.
Turn the mastery of these symbols into a game.
Cue cards can also be used for the expression of short
words, three letter, then four letter. Explain that every words can be
written with letters, and every number can be written with words or
digits. Short stories with short words can be read with your child. Here
your child can be encouraged to read the stories aloud with you. You can
also challenge your child to read the words silently, that is, with mouth
closed and no lip motion.
When you child starts reading ahead of where you both
are, then it is time for him or her to read alone. But from time to time,
you should ask your child or teen to read aloud a passage or two, to
check and practice the ability to read aloud. Confidence here needs to be
encourage from elementary school to the end of high school, and even
college. Your child should not be embarrassed to ask you to listen to a
passage being written for you to provide critical, not too
critical, constructive feedback. This is part of the learning or teaching
process.
For Writing
A child may master reading, spelling and acquire a large
vocabulary. Writing requires something to say, a story to tell,
instructions to give, or reasons for this or that. Passively reading or
listening or watching stories is quite different from presenting stories
in written or spoken form. Developing story telling and repeating skills,
both written and spoken is suggested.
An essay which is not descriptive presents a perspective
or point of view, a chain of reasoning perhaps. In meeting or writing a
chain of reason, knowledge of how to follow, form and criticize
chains of reason is required.
Read these first chapters on the communication
& logic in site Volume 1A, Pattern Based Reason, yourself before
bringing them to son's or daughter's attention. The key chapters on logic
appear in sequence in site Volume 2. chapters 1 to 5
Logic mastery (see chapters 1 to 5) and the
associated ability to read and write precisely is remedy for learning
difficulties in many subject, mathematics included. So covering the
logic chapters as early as possible without alienating your son or
daughter is recommended. What hard for a 10 year old may be less hard for
a 13 year old and easy for a 16 year old. Have patience.
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Secondary
Mathematics for Ages 11+, A Practical Approach for home-tutoring or -schooling, or for schools & colleges
with local curriculum control. Study how to include site content - its skill development how-TOs and innovations
into present or future lesson plans - some reading required.
Road
Safety Messages and Questions: When and why should you face
traffic when walking along a road or cycle path? Is it a good
idea to hang limbs outside of cars etc? What gives more
protection in a crash: a car, motorbike or bicycle?
See too, the BBC-Belgium story Texting and
Driving - texting & the impossible test - the article links to a gruesome utube video on the subject
The Logic of Injustice:
How Texas sent
an innocent man to his death - The wrong Carlos. Some judgments are irreversible. Procescution: Where and when prosectors play to win rather than for
justice, guilt beyond a reasonable doubt goes unrespected due to prosecutors who putting winning
first, those innocence before the law may be convicted. Some procescutors offices in continuing to accuse after a pardon
due to reasonable doubt or innocent being shown, may sucessfully oppose compensaton for false convictions
by asserting a pardon individual is still under suspicion. Then the pardoned individual or the latter's estate
is not compensation for years or decade
of improper or false imprisonment, or for execution. Site chapters on Logic
and some in Pattern
Based Reason may slowly lead to greater precision in reading, applying and
writing laws.
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
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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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