I'll get that sheet posted over on Math Refs at some point.

-- CatherineJohnson - 01 Oct 2005

Do you have any suggestions on studying story problems before a test?

I left a comment asking about this over at Mathman.

Cognitive psych says problem solving is expertise, and you don't have expertise after one chapter on integers.

So I'm trying to figure out if I need simply to have 'genres' of integer problems Christopher can recognize & solve.

Apparently he did a whole sheet of integer problems at school, and got them all right.

Maybe I'll just rewrite them.

-- CatherineJohnson - 01 Oct 2005

The chapter is so good I probably would have tried to get Christopher through it.

-- CatherineJohnson - 01 Oct 2005

I wish to heck I'd read/worked the integer chapter before Christopher got to Middle School. I'm just starting it now, and it's (of course) brilliant.

Unfortunately, integers are the last chapter in RUSSIAN MATH, and the first chapter in Prentice Hall.

So the best I could do was pull out a few highly-instructional problem sets.

-- CatherineJohnson - 01 Oct 2005

You MUST get a copy of Russian Math!

It's a 6th grade book!

(Why don't you ask for a review copy?)

-- CatherineJohnson - 01 Oct 2005

worksheets & study sheets

-- CatherineJohnson - 01 Oct 2005

Those number lines are FANTASTIC.

Take a look at the study guides I attached to the math refs page (BUT CHECK THEM FIRST!)

There are two pages of exercises from RUSSIAN MATH.

The rest is stuff I pulled together to help Christopher with the first half of Prentice Hall.

He has his first big test on Monday.

-- CatherineJohnson - 01 Oct 2005

We are HUGE Simpson's fans.

Huge.

-- CatherineJohnson - 01 Oct 2005

johnston household, Friday night

I've added a couple of new blogs to the blogroll: Oh, snap!, the blog of a deep-thinking grad student at Columbia Teacher's College, and mathman, the blog of a kindred spirit mathematician, math teacher, and fellow fan of cognitive psychology.

We plan to get this FAQ going this weekend! And I still am going to make (MAKE!) Colin guest-blog about his math class. He is politely resisting my plan. Right now he is resisting by watching old episodes of the Simpsons with Ben, who has become a big Simpsons fan. Now, instead of wigging out when something doesn't go his way, Ben says "D'oh!" just like Homer.

I think Homer Simpson is the only person, as far as Ben's concerned, who's ever consistently modeled any behavior, appropriate or inappropriate, in response to things-not-going-your-way. Things never go right for Homer, and his response to that is very predictable; and Ben is emulating him. It beats the fits he used to have.

I have figured out a means of getting Colin to guest-blog; you have to withhold his food. He is 17, skinny, and hungry. I plan to implement this program in the morning.

Ben's midterm report card came home today. It's all As... except for math, which was a B-. But all bets are off for math, anyway, what with Ben having just switched to using the Saxon curriculum. Week 1 of Saxon 8/7 is down; I'm pleased with how it's going; he's not. He has more homework now than he did with Connected Math.

I printed out a whole bunch of Doug's number lines on the sly at work today. This weekend, we conquer integer addition, and maybe get to subtraction as well.

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