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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…
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…