At home early math learning kit

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The Development and Research in Early Math Education group from Stanford has published an early math learning kit so you can work with your little ones to involve some easy math while going through their regular daily routines.

Read all about it: HERE

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What you can do with Cuisenaire rods

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The Association of Teachers of Mathematics shares this wonderful short and helpful article about some things you may have never thought you could do with the famous Cuisenaire rods.

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Math should be practiced like music and sports

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When people practice sports or music, they generally do so with a strong understanding of the performance that practice is meant to support. They’ve watched other people play the games or listened to other people play music. They have very likely messed around clumsily on a court or at a piano. They understand its point and like it well enough that the practice feels welcome and necessary.

Define the performance of math however you want and ask yourself, first, how well do your students understand it? Have they watched other people play math? Have they messed around clumsily with math themselves? Do they understand the point of math and like it well enough that the practice feels welcome and necessary?

We need skill fluency that blends practice and performance.

Read all about it: HERE

retrieval practice

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In a new 14-page paper, published by Zheng et al. (October 2022), research explores the inconsistency regarding the effect of working memory capacity on the testing effect – otherwise known as retrieval practice.

The typical finding is that in the final test (exam), items practised in the test condition (e.g. mock exam) are better than those in a restudy condition (day-to-day classroom).

Read all about it: HERE