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[quote=Anonymous]Kids are more successful in a class if they come in with a level of familiarity of the subject matter. If parents identify where the math is in their lives already and say it out loud, their children become familiar and more comfortable with math - which leads to greater success in math class. And the math doesn't have to be hard. I put one scoop of regular coffee in with two scoops of decaf - that's math. We bought two pizzas because we have three more people visiting tonight - that's math. If parents just tack on the "that's math" words to three things they do during the day, kids will see that math is everywhere - already. No effort to find it. We did this with reading - now everyone reads to their kids. All the stinking time! So kids are all about jumping right into a reading class. We just need to do it with math, now. Bon Crowder, the math mom in Houston[/quote]
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