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	<title>Door-2-Math Blog &#187; Managing K-12 Math</title>
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	<description>Lessons I learned in helping make math easier for kids.</description>
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		<title>Why kids struggle in 8th grade math when everything was going so well in 3rd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often come in contact with 2 types of parents at work. The first parent tells me that their 3rd grader is doing so well in math that they don&#8217;t think help is needed and the second parent tells me that their 8th grader used to do so well in math but is now struggling. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing, giving and Taking</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2010/03/27/doing-giving-and-taking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I ask my daughter of nothing!&#8221; a prospective student&#8217;s mom told me during our first in-person assessment. &#8220;I clean her room, do her laundry, pick her up, drop her off and even clean after the dog that her boyfriend gave her for Christmas!&#8221; she went on saying.
&#8220;And what do you ask for in return?&#8221; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pencil Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard about the &#8220;pencil treatment&#8221;? If not, you&#8217;re not alone. I didn&#8217;t know what pencil treatment was either until today during a lunch meeting with a couple of good friends, one of whom is an accomplished surgeon.
&#8220;The pencil treatment,&#8221; my surgeon friend said, &#8221; is placing a pencil in between my fingers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Schools and Social Security</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2010/02/07/private-schools-and-social-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re reading this article, chances are you&#8217;re actively growing and managing your own retirement savings and you probably think it&#8217;s absurd that other post baby boomers believe social security will take care of them when the time comes.
Yet believing that private tuition you pay will take care of your children&#8217;s college choices down the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alone Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My son watches TV shows on his computer &#8217;til 2 AM,&#8221; a mother I met on a tennis court complained during a break.
&#8220;What does he watch?&#8221; I asked.
&#8220;Those hospital shows, the CSIs, Glee Club, you name it, he watches it.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, my son used to do that also,&#8221; shared another mother.
&#8220;But you know what we did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford, Toyota, Mercedes or Bentley: which math vehicle is your child&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/10/29/ford-toyota-mercedes-or-bentley-which-math-vehicle-is-your-childs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A car is a car,&#8221; a new prospective parent announced during the assessment feedback portion of my assessment of his daughter&#8217;s math. &#8220;It takes you from point A to point B.&#8221;
&#8220;A beat up For will do if grocery shopping is all you need,&#8221; I countered. &#8220;I sure want at least a reliable Toyota if my [...]]]></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>What do smart kids need academically</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/10/27/what-do-smart-kids-need-academically/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/10/27/what-do-smart-kids-need-academically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smart kids get bored easily. Think about it &#8211; if you&#8217;re as academically gifted as, say, Federer in tennis, playing at your local tennis club just doesn&#8217;t cut it. Over the years, I&#8217;ve seen many students who are bright beyond the top-of-the-chart get so bored with their academic studies that they literally start to glide. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Doc 2 Doc</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/10/22/from-doc-2-doc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;re a doctor, here&#8217;s how to save your child&#8217;s math in 15 minutes.

Explain your work. Explain why you have to rush off to the hospital in the middle of dinner.
Acknowledge, acknowledge, and acknowledge your spouse.
When and if you do have some time to spend, spend it on what your kids want, not what you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permission to Contribute</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/02/15/permission-to-contribute/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/02/15/permission-to-contribute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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It never occur to me  that I&#8217;d need a permission to contribute to my daughter. You know the kind  contribution such as sweetie, you forgot to make your bed or honey, can you  brush your hair before leaving for school, or a more serious one like do the math  homework before [...]]]></description>
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