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	<title>Door-2-Math Blog &#187; Teaching Math @Home</title>
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	<description>Lessons I learned in helping make math easier for kids.</description>
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		<title>Thyme Heals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We took our two young kids to see Avatar this past Saturday. Having cried her eyes out over Titanic, the other James Cameron movie, I was glad to hear our 12-year old daughter commenting &#8220;that was a fun movie!&#8221;. Our 8-year old, however, did not weather it well. First he refused to cry when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help me understand&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say you have a child who has lost interest in school and refuses to do his homework. (Nightmare for parents, I know). By posing the question &#8220;help me understand why you choose to ignore your homework assignments&#8221; gives you, the parent, a much better footing then asking &#8220;why do you choose not to finish your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Math foundation: how much and how early?</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/10/27/math-foundation-how-much-and-how-early/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a strong math foundation is the surest way to prevent math struggle. Just how do parents go about building that strong math foundation? The rule of thumb is subtract your child&#8217;s age from 21 and that&#8217;s close to the weekly # of hours a parent ought to use on building the math foundation at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Whom Does the Pencil Belong: How NOT to Teach Math at Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was young, math was a scary thing. It was scary for two reasons: one, I simply didn’t get it and two, the scary of the scary, was that Mom and Dad didn’t get that I didn’t get math. I remember dreading the pending ‘homework’ help after dinner when the last grain of dropped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Chess to Math: Why Homework Help Alone is Ineffective in the Long Run</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2008/02/05/from-chess-to-math-why-homework-help-alone-is-ineffective-in-the-long-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While attending a chess tournament this past weekend with our two kids, I observed that our 6-year old plays his game with much less thought than his 10-year-old sister. For one, he chases his opponents&#8217; pieces with his own Queen as if he is chasing his buddies on the playground &#8211; run them down till [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Do you see what I see?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2008/01/29/do-you-see-what-i-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why would I want to do that?&#8221; asked Johnny to his mother, Teresa. The three of us, mother, so and I were sitting on my round table. Johnny is a 7th grader and Teresa holds an advanced degree in Chemistry. Johnny&#8217;s grades have improved steadily, and phase II of his program is now in full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAP: Why Can&#8217;t Johnny Remember the Math We Worked on Last Night?</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2007/10/21/gap-why-cant-johnny-remember-the-math-we-worked-on-last-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not talking about the store at the mall, although this article could also be titled Gap for Kids! I&#8217;m talking about the  ‘math amnesia&#8221; commonly occuring when a parent sits down with a child to help out on homework or to explain a math concept. Exhausted as you were the night before, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Success Buckets: How You Can Foster Math Sucess Without Doing Math at Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2007/10/21/success-buckets-how-you-can-foster-math-sucess-without-doing-math-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When talking to parents about helping their kids in math, a frequent &#8220;block&#8221; in a parent&#8217;s mind is that &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t that good in math myself, so how can I possibly help my child!&#8221;. From working with kids from kindergarten age all the way up to college, I have learned that even though a parent may not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Ways to Foster Math Success at Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2007/10/11/7-ways-to-foster-math-success-at-home/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.door2math.com/2007/10/11/7-ways-to-foster-math-success-at-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most children, math is the most difficult subject in school. Once a child falls behind, it becomes harder to catch up. Resulting frustration affects self-esteem and impacts other areas in life. In order to get into college and have a successful career in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine, architecture, and finance, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Keep Math Grades Up: A Parent&#8217;s Prospective</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2007/09/17/how-to-keep-math-grades-up-a-parents-prospective/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.door2math.com/2007/09/17/how-to-keep-math-grades-up-a-parents-prospective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After completing a math program with a student and the parents, most kids&#8217; grades stay up as they move on to higher grades. For one 8th grader who came in with D&#8217;s and left with A&#8217;s the progress actually accelerated after he left the program! He&#8217;s now routinely making the honor&#8217;s list while taking advanced [...]]]></description>
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