New on JustinMath.com - ​Failure Modes in Early Math Education; Don't Turn Your Blessing Into a Curse; How to Pull Alpha Out of Your Brain


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Common Failure Modes in Early Math Education
~700 words • 1) Staying in block-counting land so long that the the manipulatives become a crutch. 2) Covering a bunch of special-case arithmetic strategies instead of getting the kid really solid on the standard algorithms. 3) Avoiding memorization. 4) Serving up too many easy facts during times tables practice.

Don’t Turn Your Blessing Into A Curse
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