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HA! I love it!

"Flower beds, managing conflicts"?

-- Main.CarolynJohnston - 09 Jun 2005


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You women and your flower beds.  I'd rather do the "Free throw game, planning" stuff.

I suppose this goes a long way to explain why Johnny and Joanie can't make change of a dollar anymore, doesn't it.

-- Main.RayMinchew - 09 Jun 2005


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Hi Ray!

Yes, indeedy, and I haven't even got started posting your stuff!

*DUCK, EVERYONE!*

-- Main.CatherineJohnson - 09 Jun 2005


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See, the reason you want to do free throw game, planning, Ray, is that you're a guy, and guys have an *unfair advantage* in <b>[[http://www.kitchentablemath.net/twiki/bin/view/Kitchen/CanAnybodyHerePlayThisGameLogPage][target-directed motor skills]].</b>

Weren't you the one who sent me that article in the first place?

-- Main.CatherineJohnson - 09 Jun 2005


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"Fat in fast food", however, everybody can relate to. 

And "Flea treatment, half-life". 

(This comparison chart is absolutely classic). 

-- Main.CarolynJohnston - 09 Jun 2005


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I saw this list at NYC-Hold and think it's great because in a very small space, parents can get a feel for the overall problem in mathematics education. More specifically, parents can then go to the Singapore Math site and compare real grade-level problems with the homework their kids get. NCTM can talk all they want about constructivism, conceptual understanding, and problem solving, but the proof is in the problems. All that a parent has to do is to compare equal grade level Singapore math and NCTM-type math problems to see who has the better conceptual understanding and problem solving skills.

-- Main.KtmGuest - 10 Jun 2005


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Absolutely, and that's what I intend to keep doing, in the 'CompareAndContrast' posts.

Just keep putting these things side-by-side, and letting people see just where we stand.

I'll repeat here -- we plan to do lots of repeating -- that when Christopher took the Singapore Math placement test at the end of 4th grade he tested into the beginning of 2nd semester 3rd grade. That's an 18-month gap at the age of 10.

Recently a friend of mine had her 4th grader take the test, and he managed to test into the beginning of Singapore's 4th grade. Her son tests in the top 99% on mathematical reasoning on the Sanford Binet, and he's a year behind kids in Singapore.


-- Main.CatherineJohnson - 10 Jun 2005


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