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The Flying University Project is dedicated to the building of parallel institutions for education for children from minority and underserved populations in the United States. We seek to strengthen marginalized communities in these difficult times.
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The Viva Voce Demonstration of Student Learning
A fifth grade student in our North Portland group demonstrates how to compute the average (arithmetic mean) of a set of numbersBy Clarence Thompson
Those who have followed our work so far have probably noticed the prominent role that the video recording of student performance has played in our tea…
Conceptualizing Rounding and Estimating
By Clarence ThompsonIn our North Portland teaching group, some of our older kids have advanced beyond the written materials we have published to date, so we are scrambling a bit to provide them with materials appropriate to their age level and to the topics to which they are being exposed in scho…
Teachers' and Textbook Writers' Meeting - November 2018
Some of our Fall 2018 kids demonstrate single- and multiple-digit addition.By Clarence Thompson
Our teachers' and textbook writers' group had a productive meeting today. Book 4 of our Elementary School Math series is progressing nicely, but is not quite ready yet to take out of the oven. …
So...What Is A Parallel Institution, Anyway?
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Wikimedia Commons, by Fuzheado (Andrew Lih). Released Under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licenseBy Clarence Thompson
I thought I'd provide a bit more clarification regarding the …
Word Problems for Young Adults - Book 4
Climate March 1085 - Sign, Wikimedia Commons, Edward Kimmel, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic licenseBy Clarence Thompson
This post concludes our preview of word problems from our upcoming Book 4 of the Elementary School Math for a Flying University series. It…