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Multiple-Digit Math Fun

By Clarence Thompson
One 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…
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May 1, 2018: The Commutative Property and Multiple-Digit Multiplication

The last two weeks have been quite productive.  We now have four families who come on a fairly regular basis, and at times we have had nine kids at our weekly teaching sessions.  Most of the kids are between nine and twelve years old, but we do also have a six year old girl and a five year old boy…
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Our First Video: A Celebration of First Steps

I don't have time this weekend to write a lengthy post, but I thought I'd share a video which illustrates the sort of goals we are trying to achieve.  The girl in the picture is in the fourth grade, and after a minor false start, she successfully solved a double-digit by single-digit multi…
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