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	<description>Lessons I learned in helping make math easier for kids.</description>
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		<title>Let your children show you how they want to learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most children will show you how they want to learn. Your job is to observe first and follow their lead. This is the most efficient way to impart knowledge to your child. One day, I was scooping up rice into my hands to make some rice balls for my son at the dinner table. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect your child&#8217;s curiosity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning is a marathon, not a sprint. Resist the urge to push. As they say, there is no &#8220;free lunch&#8221; &#8211; protect a young child&#8217;s curiosity for they see not what you value as the importance of math &#8211; their college and career choices. They see fun and that is all they see. Can&#8217;t make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Thousand Dollar Tickets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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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, [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford, Toyota, Mercedes or Bentley: which math vehicle is your child&#8217;s</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Math foundation: how much and how early?</title>
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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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