Why Mistakes Matter in Math: Build Confidence Through Struggle Last Tuesday, I watched my first-grader throw his pencil across the kitchen table after getting a subtraction problem wrong for the third time. “I hate math! I’m terrible at it!” he cried, with tears welling up in his eyes. It was a heartbreaking moment — not […]
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5 Brilliant Movement Math Activities for Kids | Boost Skills Yesterday morning, I watched my 6-year-old trudge toward the school bus with all the enthusiasm of someone heading to a root canal.“I hate math,” he mumbled, dragging his backpack behind him.But just three hours later, that same kid was practically bouncing off the walls, excitedly
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Positive Math Language: 5 Simple Ways to Build Math Confidence “I’m just not a math person.”That sentence from my first-grader shattered me last Tuesday morning.As a former math teacher with fifteen years of experience, I realized I’d unknowingly planted seeds of math anxiety in my own home. Here I was, someone who’d spent my career
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