Keep them calm

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Surely in this age of uncertainty it is important to keep the children in your classes calm. The UK chat has a wonderful article about it with a move by move manual to make it happen.

Read all about it: HERE

Life can be difficult for our kids

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Children’s mental health and well-being are tied to their achievement in school. For elementary and middle school students, the classroom can be an overwhelming environment that may cause social pressure and performance anxiety.

As a result, mental health interventions are often needed to help address adverse effects, particularly for students of color who face the additional threat of negative stereotypes and biases about their ability to succeed academically, some experts say.

See the article in the link for today to find five ways to help your kids.

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Kitchen math

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A wonderful way to teach your children some number sense and show them that math is not just in the school but everywhere around you, is to have them help you in the kitchen. NPR has a nice article that tells you how to go about it.

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Visual aids are so important

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Seen on Twitter from someone who saw it on Facebook, but here is the story. Our students often have difficulty grouping like terms or substituting. As soon as we change the symbolic language for pictures of something they are familiar with, their focus changes and they have less difficulty working the problems. Hence the cycle Concrete representational abstract. So if they have problems with the abstract notation, move back to the representational.

Improving spatial skills will improve math skills

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It has now been confirmed, although there was an understanding about it a lot longer. Age and gender do not make a difference, the improvement of spatial skills will improve the math skills of all, so time for action.

Read all about it: HERE