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Summer Fun - Adding With Carrying

At our North Portland location, we are having fun.  The girl in the picture aced a problem involving adding with carrying, as seen in the video at the bottom of this post.  She just turned 7.  When she was 6, we were able to teach her the commutative properties of addition and multiplication.

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Self-Organization, Self-Attainment, and Self-Improvement

Benjamin Marshall leads his children in a homeschooling session.  Image courtesy of SFGate Newspaper.

By Clarence Thompson

In a couple of previous posts, I mentioned three key elements of the Flying University Project: self-organization, self-attainment, and self-improvement. As an African-Ameri…
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Summer Lull: A Time For Capacity-Building

By Clarence Thompson
The North Portland teaching group been in a bit of a lull for the last few weeks, due to the end of the school year for many public schools in the area.  Even Rosa Parks School, which is a year-round school, is taking a break for five weeks.  However, the end of the school yea…
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$3 A Gram

Joint Made From Marijuana.  Image by Raihan Rana, retrieved from Wikimedia Commons on 12 May 2018, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
By Clarence Thompson

The last two posts presented a simple example of the usefulness of numeracy in managing one's resou…
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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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