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Life Is A Word Problem
By Clarence ThompsonWe have reached an interesting juncture in our teaching. Our most advanced students have become both comfortable and competent in performing the four basic operations on single and multiple-digit numbers, so we have been giving them real-world word problems to solve. This mo…
Multiple-Digit Math Fun
By Clarence ThompsonOne of our last sessions before the winter break consisted of teaching multiple-digit operations to some of our kids. We were pleased to see that kids as young as six are perfectly capable of grasping multiple-digit addition without carrying, and that kids as young as eight a…
Book 4 - Elementary School Math for a Flying University
By Clarence ThompsonI am pleased to announce that we now have Book 4 of our Elementary School Math series online. It can be found under our "Math Resources" page on this site. We will probably make a few minor modifications to the book over the next week, mainly consisting of adding s…