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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…
Summer Lull: A Time For Capacity-Building
By Clarence ThompsonThe 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…
$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…
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…
Knowing Numbers ≠ Getting Fleeced
By Clarence ThompsonWe who are part of the Flying University Project have been very busy this past week. It looks like at least two teaching venues will be opening up in East Portland this month, and a new teacher has joined us. As a result, I don't have a lot of time to write a lengthy pos…