The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins Book Review

 

'The Doorbell Rang' by Pat Hutchins is the story of a mother who just made cookies, but more people keep showing up to eat them.

The mother and baker of our story doesn't ever stop to have a cookie, which is unfair, I guess she's watching her weight. Otherwise this is a lovely story about cookies, math, and sharing. Every time the doorbell rings we see the cookies be divided again. 

I would, however, say that you shouldn't read your children this book unless you are having cookies because, well, who wants to look at cookies they cant' eat?

Who should read this book? People who have cookies.

Books read: 698 of 5,000

'Facts and Figures' by Rose Griffiths Book Review

'Facts and Figures' by Rose Griffiths is a small hard bound book

designed to teach children mathematics. It is written under the idea or situation of a group of children who are taking care of guinea pigs. 

Examples are given of how math can be used to help look after the animals and keep them fed. Weighing the animals is also mentioned.  At one point toy guinea pigs are introduced to help with understanding a small amount about shapes and geometry. 

All and all this book is a lot more fun than it is educational. That's not bad because making math fun is a great idea. 

Who should read this book? Children nervous about math. 

Books read: 160 of 5000

Line graphs by Sherra G. Edgar Book Review

Line graphs by Sherra G. Edgar is a book bout line graphs which is

a good topic for a young child to know given that we use them in every day life. 

I will point out that I don't think I ever needed explanation in what a line graph is but then I have an I.Q. of a hundred and thirty so that's no big feet. 

All in all, not a bad book for your children.

Who should read this book? the children of parents who want them to do well in math. 

Books Read: 104 of 5000

'Haley Helps at School' by Blaine Fronczak Book Review

'Haley Helps at School' by Blaine Fronczak is an activity math book with a story to go along with

the learning. 

It features pictures and not drawings so it is grounded in reality, and none of the tasked needed the math.  

This is a book one would read with their child and ask them to do the math problems along with the book and it would be worth reading for preschool and maybe kinder garden children. 

Who should read this book? Very young children an their parents. 

Books read 68 of 5000

1995 Yearbook Signature: Alex R.

What was I Thinking?

If there is one thing that truly messes with a man it is his own face in the mirror made clear. That’s why it so hard for me to look back at these old essays.

That would lead to the question: “so why are you posting this online?” To be honest, I’m not all that sure. There are things I find that I will refrain from posting, but that is due to the work involved.

I believe that date is incorrect or that this was an essay for my freshman English class. I think I must have been the dumbest fifteen year old in all the state of California at the time, and I still have no idea how I graduated from high school.

Well this is an essay where I tried to say that we need good teachers, well written text books, and motivated students to teach mathematics. At the time I couldn’t even spell mathematics, what did I know?   

                              2^nd January 1995                           

M Forward

Math is the subject of today's essay. You all, I am sure, have taken it under different titles. So it must be explored good points, bad points, and flaws in application, so that it is understood.

           

Math enables us to do almost everything in life that we do now, it is considered by some to be more than or as essential as reading. This is perfectly true as I can see it. Math is a tool in business, and the more you know the better you can do, depending on how you use it, if you use it. It can and will give you a better understanding of what you do. Inside of all this are the bad points that always exist.

           

Common bad points are in un-learnable nature of math, it is confusing. In theory the equation for math learning is teacher X materiel plus study equals result or TM+S=R and the best to have is 25(2)+50=100 the teacher is a very important part as you can see. However math's greatest enemy is bad books, I have never seen good math books in fact. Not to mention that to teach math appropriately is thought to be too hard to do, or at least impractical. Can you detect the confusion?

             

The greatest problem with math as far as uses is that Math has attributed to the damaging things of today. Math gives us the ability to do bad and good and the two are inseparable. This is a topic that is not commonly brought up. However, you can counter math with itself. They used math to build the missal and to detect it.

             

until next time R.L.N.

Honors Student

22^nd March 2012

Dear Cassi,

       

There is a bit of business that happened in middle school that would be a major shaping agent for the next six years of my life. Up until the age of eleven I was classified as learning disabled. Understand here that schools get more funding for the learning disabled so they have no interest in curing this problem.

       

Now it just so happens that the school also gets money for the honors students and that one can be both. This contradiction is most perplexing given that a student must have problems to be learning disabled and yet must be more capable than average to be in honors.

       

So they tested me for honors aptitude. I went into one of the buildings with a math teacher who had these blue eyes that darted about the room as if he were on drugs. They gave me an English test. What the math teacher was doing there I cannot say but they gave me a set of pictures and told me to write a story.

       

When I was done they explained to me that I would be graded on how many long words I used. I think this was words over seven letters however I cannot recall. As the written word and I had never gotten on well I had written my story in the smaller words I was better with and so had scored poorly.

Then they saw the word ‘jalopy’ in my story and decided to count it even as it was one letter short. That day I became an honors man and the school put a few more dollars in their budget. I only made it through honors classes because they gave me special consideration.

Still the truth in this regard is that my learning disorder was like a broken bone that had healed wrong. The problem progressed only because it was never looked after and I suffered so that they could make a few extra dollars.

Hear the roar of the all mighty dollar, little sister

Richard Leland Neal

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