You can do a surprising amount of development on the road, but it tends to be an all-or-nothing situation. There are still large parts of the country where wi-fi is non-existent.
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It's impossible to get the attention of teachers and administrators for the next few weeks, so we are going on a road trip testing our educational software under remote conditions. If you are in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota or North Dakota and want to meet up, let us know.
Dennis and AnnMaria’s Excellent Adventure Road Trip
Teaching division isn’t easy. It requires practice from the students and patience from the teacher. There are always students who don’t get it the first time so you need more examples. Maybe students are limited in English so you need some explanations in Spanish. We’ve got you covered with several […]
Division lesson plans for the year in one hour
Seriously, there's more to teaching fractions than pizza. Fractions are the first abstract concept most students learn and they can struggle to understand the concept. So, here are 10 minutes of animated videos, with explanations, definitions and a range of examples.
Teaching Fractions in 10 minutes
You don’t want to think about math lesson planning – or anything else school related – for at least a month I understand math lesson planning is the last thing you want to think about right now. Whether you’ve just finished the school year or you have a few more […]
Next year’s math lesson planning done in a day
Should you move to another country, found another company, live away from your husband or all of the above? Should you apply for Startup Chile? I’ve been asked this question by a couple of people recently and here is my answer. Startup Chile was a great experience and although I […]
Advice on life, marriage, startups and Chile
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of algebra As a professor, I saw SO many students enter college with high hopes, only to run into the obstacle of their first college level math course. One of two things happened. Either they dropped out of college altogether when they found out […]
Step 1 in getting your child ready for algebra
I didn’t need a special week to tell me that Sister Marion, Mr. Cartwright and Dr. Eyman had a positive impact on my life. They were my teachers in sixth-grade, eighth-grade and in my Ph.D. program and not coincidentally, all of them were math teachers. Most of us, no matter […]
Teacher Appreciation: Putting our Money Where our Mouth Is
3 When my four children were school age – and two of them home schooled – certain people made comments behind my back about the state of my housekeeping. Some even said it to my face. I often get asked how I manage to do it all and the answer is […]
Good parents have messy houses
2 Look how far we've come! I wonder what those people who saw our very early efforts expected. If you're one of them, please take a second look because I'm sitting here grinning thinking how surprised you're going to be.
If you haven’t seen us lately, you haven’t seen us
The good news to report to you is that Fish Lake Adventure is now in the app store for iPad. All of you who have asked for our game that teaches fractions to be available for iPad, here it is! It also teaches Ojibwe history and culture. Let me tell […]
At what age can your children know fishing and hunting ...
A week ago, I wrote about how, despite heroic efforts on the part of many teachers and administrators and some success stories, the problems I see in education today are the same as when I began teaching in Banning and Riverside, CA almost 35 years ago. If nothing changes, nothing […]