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Welcome to Math-Rich Live! First course tasks
Hello and welcome to the course! Let us start working hard and playing hard.
The first task this week: please introduce yourself! You can comment under this forum post to do so.
The sign-up task was to ask a question about young kids. There are fantastic question everybody submitted, and we will center the course on those. I would like to suggest the second task for this week: go to http://ask.naturalmath.com/ and answer 3+ questions of others with your ideas. If you just put your question in the sign-up form, now is the good time to put it on this site.
The third task will be our live meeting, or for some of you, the recording of the meeting. The live meetings for the course will be on Mondays, 7pm Eastern US time. Here is the world clock for all time zones.
To join the meeting, follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/MathRichMeeting
The fourth task is the "topic of the week" - for which I am making a separate forum post. The topic is, "Strewing math around the house: beyond numbers and shapes." It would be better to relate the topic to your question and/or to other questions.
This is a peer-to-peer course, so feel free to add tasks, start new forum topics, and otherwise steer the work where you need to go.
To summarize:
- Task 1: Introductions - this thread
- Task 2: Three answers - http://ask.naturalmath.com/
- Task 3: Live meeting 7pm Monday - http://tinyurl.com/MathRichMeeting
- Task 4: Topic of the week - a separate forum thread
Hi, I live in Victoria, Canada with my daughter who is 6 months old. I'm an international comparative education researcher - but usually deal with systems - not with how children learn, etc. (the latter is certainly fascinating!) But for this year, I'm happily a full-time mom. a very time-intensive job. I'm really looking forward to learning what I can do with my daughter - especially from others with slightly older children. Many thanks!
Hi, my name is Mick and I live with my son who is 18 months old. I'm a software engineer and I've been very interested in child development and cognitive processing. I also work on open source software for kids (in my spare time). I look forward to sharing my experience and learning from everyone else' experiences.
Hello. My name is Sara, and I have been teaching primary for a few years. I have recently undertaken training in the 'everyday math' program developed by the University of Chicago and feel very enthusiastic about their approach to mathematical thinking. I enjoy exploring maths concepts and understanding why students sometimes have difficulty with certain ideas and how to overcome this challenge through different presentations. I have two daughters (4.5 and 2) who I love to experiment on and teach new ideas. I am also very interested in Montessori type math manipulatives. Looking forward to learn from you all :)
Hello,
I am Victor, currently in Moscow, Russia. My son is 19 months old, and I am not relly sure what I want from this course. I guess while I know a bit about teaching how to read and write, I have a very vague idea about how to make math interesting. Guess, I am here to pick brains. Your brain, too :)
Anything that will make my life easier and my son's more exciting will do.
Hi everyone. My name is Pam and I have three young children -- ages 5, almost 4, and 16 months. We plan on homeschooling our children and the oldest and I do a very gentle math program every day. At the moment we use the MEP curriculum, an online Math program called Dreambox Learning, lots of games, and math readers and activities inspired by the Living Math website and email loop.
I consider mathematics my worst school subject. I made decent grades in the classes through advanced mathematics, but have little to no understanding of what I was doing. I desire for this to be different for my children. I want them to see the mathematics around them, see beauty in mathematics, and have a deep understanding of the whys behind the processes. That is why I am here. Thanks for the opportunity.
Hi all. My name is Sue. My son is 8 now, but this topic fascinates me. I teach math at a community college. I live in Richmond, CA. I'm also working on a book, Playing With Math: Stories from Math Circles, Homeschoolers, and the Internet.
Good morning (well, those United Stateside!)! I am Kirsten, with Hailey (2 in February) and a newborn expected sometime in March. We recently relocated to a new city due to my husband's job. Because of that (and pregnancy), I am looking at being a SAHM for a while. This little girl went from daycare to mommicare, and I am trying to keep her engaged (nevermind that she is watching TV right now as I check in! ~blush~).
I am looking for some great ideas for giving her a great base in what is our worst subject, as parents. I want to be engaging and fun. Like Pam, I want her to be able to explore the beauty around her -- not fear it, like I did.
Off topic, but how fun would it be to get all the kids on one of those multi-user video chats one day? I suppose logistics might be tricky with time zones (wow, Russia!), but fun!
Great idea about involving kids, Kirsten! Let's invite kids to come and wave at least during the Monday events - we will have to take turns with videos (maybe 3-4 at a time), but it will be fun. What service did you have in mind?
We can also make a VoiceThread for the purpose - does anyone want to start that?
Check out "Cyberchase" - great kiddie math videos.
Russia will be there only if my baby keeps me up at 3AM talking MATH of all things...
Well, better math than coughing, sneezing and boogers.
yes, sort of the same situation here in turkey. I'll watch the recording when it's posted though!
Hi All,
My name is Kenede but am known on here as zetamom. I am a wife and mother of two, prince 12 and princess 21 months. We are long time residents of Washington, DC. I am homeschooling our daughter and highly considering homeschooling our son. The baby and I have been homeschooling since August 2010 and we love it! I look forward to working with everyone:)
Good Luck!!
Heehee. Does the 12-year old get a snow day today from homeschool today? :) I grew up in the area and have plenty of friends and family still in the area. It was amusing to read all the Facebook posts last night about Pepco, traffic, etc. Stay safe!
My name is Emeka I am an Engineer from Nigeria. I am father of two, Emeka 23 months and Nwamaka 2 weeks. I have watched my son Emeka with keen interest and I feel the need to introduce him to Math in order to fully engage him. I am here to learn from you all.
Welcome, you will be excited to get all the ideas and assistance you will receive. Congratulations on your new addition into your family:) You all have very beautiful names, may you share their meanings.
Well, Emeka is a short form for Chukwuemeka. The word "Chukwu" stands for God (in Ibo language), while "Omeka" means "he has done well or great". Joining the two together forms Chukwuemeka which means "God has done well or great". For Nwamaka; "Nwa" means "baby or one's child" and "Omaka" means beautiful. When you join the two together you have Nwamaka. Nwamaka is usually given to baby girls which means "this baby is beautiful".
Well, Emeka is a short form for Chukwuemeka. The word "Chukwu" stands for God (in Ibo language), while "Omeka" means "he has done well or great". Joining the two together forms Chukwuemeka which means "God has done well or great". For Nwamaka; "Nwa" means "baby or one's child" and "Omaka" means beautiful. When you join the two together you have Nwamaka. Nwamaka is usually given to baby girls which means "this baby is beautiful".
Hi, I'm Catherine in Knoxville, Tennessee. I have one 4-year-old daughter. At the moment, she loves numbers! I want her to continue to "love" numbers, but am concerned about what happens to girls as they get older and lose interest and confidence with math. This happened to me too!
Here's one perspective: "Why Can't Science And Math Keep Their Girls? One Parent's Experience" http://bit.ly/9DNpnc
I have begun reading everyone's ideas for activities that move beyond just counting, but I guess I'm missing something. How does drawing spirals or making symmetrical images with wet paint relate to learning about math? I look forward to the discussion.
Hi, I'm Yelena and I live in Raleigh, NC (US). I homeschool my 4-year old son, Mark. Math was something I dreaded all through school. One thing I learned from my experience with math is that good memory can only get you so far and then you hit the wall. Don't want the same to happen to my son. But I need some direction and ideas on things other than counting and arithmetic.
Hi, I'm Kristina and I live in Knoxville, TN (Catherine's daughter and my daughter have been best buds since they before they were born!). I'm taking time off from my career in software dev. to be a stay at home mom for my 4 year old daughter, Kajsa. I was always scared of math until I dated a mathematician for several years after college who made me appreciate that mathematics is incredibly creative mathematics and aspires to be elegant, although I still have an impossible time understanding it all. Like everyone else, I want my daughter to feel comfortable with math, so she'll feel confident, not intimidated, when tackling math problems.
I appreciate the online resources you all have been referring to (I'm looking them all up!). My daughter enjoys playing games on Starfall.com (they have a new website with math problems). And she's enjoying learning chess from Dinosaur Chess (check out the demo app at http://www.dinosaurchess.com/website/default.shtml).
One of the best source of confidence in tackling math problems is a lot of practice in making up your own!
Thank you for the dino link - they look so kindly! We will need to put together a math-rich link sharing group soon.