Math Blog Summary

Jan 2025

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1. Algebraic Thinking

2. Math Repetition

3. Kids Learning PReference

   1. Auditory

   2. Visual

   3. Reading Writing

   4. Kinesthetic

   5. Are you a kinesthetic Learner

   6. Are you a visual learner?

   7. Are you a auditory learner?

   8. What we can learn from famous kinesthetic learners

   9. What we can learn from famous auditoral learners

   10. What we can learn from famous visual learners

4. Harnessing Harmony: What Horses and Numbers Teach Us About Connection

5. Bread, Bananas, and Breakthroughs: A Recipe to play with problems

   1. Building Student-Centric Context for Early Math Concepts

6. How Will a Fish Climb a Tree? Building meta-cognition in kids.

7. Talk to kids when you are faced with a problem.

8. Everything is nothing with a twist.

9. Why Math Needs a Story

10. Unlocking the Brain’s Superpower: Learning Without Limits

11. The Power of the Sub Conscious Mind for Learning. Lucid dreaming for Math learning

12. Title: Cultivating a Mathematical Mindset: Nurturing a Love for Numbers in Young Minds

13. Why Elsa is first a mathematician then a Disney princess.

14. Low hanging fruits, mindful methods for everyday excellence

15. Can Math teach leadershiP?

16. Pareidolla Seeing Faces - 

17. Mental Math for Kids - Addition and Subtraction

1. Worksheets are an underdog

2. Patterns in Math - Magic squares

3. Mental Math - Addition

4. Mental Math - Subtraction

5. Important to distingusish 0 from Null

6. Prime vs composite numbers

7. Natural numbers

8. Mindfulness in Math

9. Importance of making math playful

10. Math problem today 

    1. Problem 

    2. Solution

11. Coding for Math - Python, Scratch.

18. Recreational Math - Finding day in a calendar 

19. Recreational Math - Finding Birthdays

20. Recreational Math - number of siblings

21. Math in Nature

    1. Homeschoolers who love nature - Charlette Mason

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Feb 2025 - Talk a lot about homeschool where possible, even with articles already written in Jan. YOu need homeschool audience and regular teachers.

21. 2. How we learn deeply in our homeschool and why that is important.

    3. The Unseen Power of Reading Upside Down

    4. Creating a scorecard for goals with the child/classrom.  Taking some notes from my Scrum Master training

    5. Can we use six sigma tools in the classroom. E.g 5 Why method.

    6. Socrates Questioning

    7. Different talents/skills. How can kids prepare for mindful excellence

    8. Math Motivation

    9. Why bother with Geometry in kindergarten? Pattern recognition an important tool. Use Ikat for it

    10. Math Facts, make it fun! Use the Chemistry example.

    11. Different types of intelligence

    12. Building Emotional Intelligence with Math

    13. ELA Strategies for Math

    14. Measurement and Data - How can it foster a love for problem solving.

    15. Is competition a bad thing?

    16. Getting into Flow

    17. Teaching children self management/problem solving through process mapping. Other analytical tools to gauge self progress. Value added/Non value added.  Mind maps.

    18. Sanscrit as a language for pre-frontal cortex development. How to incorporate chanting into your learning experience.

    19. Math Activities (can be attached to above posts or can be its own post)

        1. Math Affirmations

        2. Math Puns/Jokes

        3. How to make a math boardgame

        4. Coding Math problems

        5. Math and Automata

        6. Math and GIF Animations

        7. Math DIY Models

        8. Vedic Math Techniques

        9. Random Fun Math activities - Star, garden, different festivals etc.