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More Word Problems: The State Fair and the Shoe Company

Child Enjoys The View Through the Lens of a Binocular, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.
By Clarence Thompson
Below are two word problems written by my friend Craig Haynes for the upcoming Book 4 of our Elementary School Math series.  When you try to solve them, please remember the four problem-sol…
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Word Problem Preview: Sophie's Bicycle Ride

Japanese keikaisha, Bridgestone Message Men's Type. Image created by Imoni, licensed underCreative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.  Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons.

By Clarence Thompson
Here is another word problem for adventurous kids and grown-ups to chew on.  To solve i…
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150 Pounds of Garlic

Herb Garden, Kline Creek Farm, by Erika Smith.  Image retrieved from Wikimedia Commons
By Clarence Thompson
I have been very busy for the last two months with community organizing.  The last three weeks have been especially interested as I am taking an online class related to creating social moveme…
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A Belated Birthday Present: Strategy Groups

By Clarence Thompson

This weekend in this city of Portland, there have been agents of evil at work trying to tear apart the social fabric of our society.  But while their efforts have been very overt, there have been others at work in hidden, subsurface ways to build and strengthen communities of …
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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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