@CharlesOCasey@teachthemx3 The best antidote for Anxiety is ACTION. https://t.co/1JnnUvjWnk
Just 10-minutes (maybe twice a day) even at home. #homeschool
Full text at https://t.co/C6s7Q5Ehwx
by Daniel T. Willingham, American psychologist at the University of Virginia, whose research focuses on applying neuroscience to K-12 education.
Is it True that Some People Just Can't Do Math?
When a student says, "I'm just no good at math," #teachers should intervene and challenge this limiting belief, as it attributes difficulty to an unchanging quality and makes the student feel powerless.
Math is a skill— like music or sports. Yet somehow, it's treated it differently. We’d never accept anti-practice attitudes in other domains, so why do we tolerate it in math? Here's @AlexKontorovich talking about this in my latest podcast episode. Link to full episode below.
If your kid doesn't know their math facts COLD, they can't do upper division math
Learning math facts ages 10+ is possible but kids' brains are more receptive when less than 8 (yes, really)
I know you don't want to... but your kid NEEDS you to help them learn math facts♥️
Important for Kindergarten -->
Subitizing is the ability to instantly recognize the number of items in a small set without counting. It's like quickly knowing how many dots are on a die without counting them individually.
Thankful for our community partners at Life Sanctuary for sponsoring the Rocket Math Ice Cream Celebration school wide incentive for our Salk Family 💜 🖤.