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The Test That Stops South Korea

One of the most tense days in South Korea just occurred. Almost 700,000 high school students took the national college entrance examination. This is no minor thing. The once a year test determines a student’s expectations. There is so much value placed on the exam that planes can’t even take off near the test site, [...]

Use Addends To Make Addition And Subtraction Fun

Since 1990, I have taken on students of every skill level and age you can think of, from 3 to 83, from those who could not yet count to those who just needed some brush up in preparation for calculus. A recurring theme among those students who are getting the poorest grades and [...]

Use Concept Based Teaching To Make Learning Easy

The Five Basic Concepts:
1. Mathematics is the study of numbers and all we can do with numbers is COUNT
2. The concept of SAME. The highest number we can count to (in base ten) is 9, the numbers tell you how many the places tell you what kind. Before we can count they must be SAME.
3. [...]

Kids.Gov Great Site For Home Schooling Mums

We know how it goes on the Internet. One click leads to another and it just happened to me again. And I found this great website for families doing homeschool.
The site is http://kids.gov and it is jam packed with free content that will be a genuine help to pupils doing research on a whole slew [...]

HomeSchooling: How To Study History At Home – Some Ideas

Do you think that spending time in traditional classrooms is not worth it? To some people, that is true. For example, a test is coming up and the students are asked to memorize a lot of dates and names.
However, after taking the exam, they will definitely forget about those dates and names. That’s what most [...]