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	<title>Door-2-Math Blog &#187; Zen of Math Success</title>
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		<title>Seven Thousand Dollar Tickets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching and managing my student&#8217;s math potential comes easy and naturally for me. Maybe it&#8217;s because I struggled myself when I was young or maybe I can hear the unspoken questions in my student&#8217;s mind. Whatever life ingredients are in the art of teaching math, I&#8217;ve breathed them in.
Running a small business, especially marketing, now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bird Appreciation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;d be so nice to be a bird,&#8221; my 8 year old son remarked from the backseat of the car on our way to school this morning.
&#8220;So you can fly around all day long?&#8221; I asked, keeping my eyes on the traffic light that was about to turn green.
&#8220;That and I&#8217;d have such a pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MathDoc vs. MathDuck</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;MATHDOC&#8221; is my license plate, a birthday gift from my kids actually. I like it because it captures what I do at work: diagnose and treat students plagued with math anxiety.
For the 3 years I&#8217;ve driven my Toyota Camry with the license plate, only my mechanic who changes my oil every 3000 miles asked me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repeat after me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Repeat after me, mommy,&#8221; our 12 year old daughter said after school one day with her shining eyes &#8220;That&#8217;s a fantastic job!&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s a fantastic job!&#8221; I said, copying her enthusiasm.
&#8220;You worked hard! And I&#8217;m proud of you!&#8221;
&#8220;You worked hard! And I&#8217;m proud of you!&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;ll go far in life!&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;ll go far in life!&#8221;
&#8220;Okay. That&#8217;s good enough,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford, Toyota, Mercedes or Bentley: which math vehicle is your child&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Managing K-12 Math]]></category>
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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>
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		<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>Pitfalls of Positive Encouragement</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/10/22/pitfalls-of-positive-encouragement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Parents should never tell their kids that they can be anything they want to be when they grow up,&#8221; my student announced as soon as she entered my office and sat down. Becca is a bright and energetic young lady who is much more mature and street smart than her 16 years of age would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I do try vs. You don&#8217;t try hard enough</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/10/22/i-do-try-vs-you-dont-try-hard-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arguments , just like coins have two sides. I take my student&#8217;s side and here is why: kids didn&#8217;t ask to be born. They exist in our lives because we had, one way or another, chose to have them. That gives them the &#8220;argumentative&#8221; advantage. So when my students say to their parents &#8220;I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When in Doubt&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.door2math.com/2009/10/22/when-in-doubt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When in doubt,&#8221; my husband always says, &#8220;just go with the 1st pair of black shoes you chose in the first place.&#8221; When it comes to your child&#8217;s math, trust your gut feeling:
Think Johnny ought to be held back a year, make it happen. Think Johnny needs a more challenging math class, find him one. [...]]]></description>
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