What Kids Learn in Math Class that You Never Learned: Basics

A guide to the mystifying but effective strategies students are learning now, including Common Core math..

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What Kids Learn in Math Class that You Never Learned: Basics
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Apr 2016
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What you will learn

Understand & practice strategies in elementary/middle school math

Learn strategies that were not taught in mainstream US education before the last 5-10 years.

Understand the thinking behind newer ways of learning math.

Reflect upon attitudes about math and how to develop growth mindset.

Why take this course?

Are you struggling with some of the "new" approaches being taught now to math students? Are you a parent, or a teacher who struggles with teaching math, or an interested adult who wants to understand more about why these new approaches are being used?

This course addresses many of the foundational areas of math in the early elementary grades, from the concept of equivalence to using the distributive property in multiplying larger numbers. If you aren't sure what the point of some of the strategies are, or your child says, "That's not how my teacher said to do it," or why certain strategies are taught when, this course is for you. 

The course, Basic Concepts, covers:

  • Number sense and how to help it develop
  • The relationships of numbers to each other 
  • The relationships of mathematical operations to each other
  • The concept of equivalence and how it's taught to young children
  • Mental addition and subtraction strategies
  • Viral Common Core memes, and what we can learn from the math behind them
  • Connections between addition and multiplication, and subtraction and division
  • Different models for multiplying and dividing
  • Mental math tips for multiplying and dividing
  • Strategies for making even the hardest word problems easier to solve

Lessons are delivered in an easy-to-follow video format, with accompanying downloadable documents where they are useful, and for additional practice with the strategies. Answer keys are provided for problem sets too. Periodic quizzes help make sure you are on the right track.

You even get bonus activities to do at home with your children, and useful printed tips for making your own mental math easier!

This course can be used as a basic introduction for teachers, but it is not meant for in-depth professional development.

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Reviews

Terren
April 29, 2020
I bought this course as it looked like a good foundation for me. I have a Grade Level 2 math skills but this course is extremely basic and doesn't give practical ways as an adult to do math but the examples in this course are good for young kids. Just finished the course and the last 2 parts of the last section were poorly explained and executed. At one point she had math calculations all over the page with no step by step order on how to do it. It just leaves you feeling more confused. Either this course is really basic and isn't practical for an adult to use or more "complex" areas of the course are poorly explained and executed.What not recommend to any adult friend I know wanting to learn math. Perfect for a parent wanting to teach their 2 year old math but not for adult learners themselves.
Terese
April 12, 2016
This course has been so helpful. I teach a multilevel class room ages 4-8 and the range of this covers all three. Each lecture gives a great foundation to start from and then I find myself coming up with all kinds of ideas. The main in thing is the simplicity and step by step breakdown of the concepts. This is not the way that I learned math but I sure wish it was. I would have understood so much more!!

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