Archive for: August 2008

August 25, 2008

The Question of Note-Taking

Filed under: Kids Math Teaching Guide - 25 Aug 2008

On the question of notebook work, there will always be a considerable difference of opinion. It is much easier to state what notebook work should not be than to outline precisely how it should be conducted. Certainly it should not …

Fundamental Principles of Good Questioning

Filed under: Kids Math Teaching Guide - 25 Aug 2008

It is not likely that the teacher will find it advisable to require reports at every recitation nor that the reports and their discussion will consume, at the most, longer than ten or fifteen minutes of any class period. There …

August 24, 2008

The Puzzling Money- Boxes

Filed under: Math Puzzles - 24 Aug 2008

Four brothers—named John, William, Charles, and Thomas—had each a money-box.

The boxes were all given to them on the same day, and they at once put what money they had into them; …

August 23, 2008

The Millionaire’s Perplexity

Filed under: Math Puzzles - 23 Aug 2008

Mr. Morgan G. Bloomgarten, the millionaire, known in the States as the Clam King, had, for his sins, more money than he knew what to do with. It bored him.

So he …

3. Teaching Guide

Filed under: Uncategorized - 23 Aug 2008

3.1 What is Teaching?

3.21.5 Promoting Class Activities Out of Hours

Filed under: Kids Math Teaching Guide - 23 Aug 2008

The Seventies who harvested the grain for the widow of one of their members did a splendid bit of service, not only for her but for their own quorum. A common objective in service made for …

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