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Comment on Everyday Life Math by Penny

Penny — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:31:11 +0000

PS: For families who are interested, I have compiled a list of RDI(r) bloggers and bloggers who use a developmental approach in one blog entry: http://notnewtoautism.blogspot.com/2010/02/blogging-about-developmental.html aut2behomeincarolina and niffercoo have been blogging about math recently.

Comment on A Mother and Her Autistic Daughter by Penny

Penny — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:10:17 +0000

Nice description for someone just learning about it – I so appreciate your interest! Thank you, Mike!

Giving credit where credit is due: Ruth Beechick’s books gave me the steps for how concepts of math develops. She’s been a big help to me from a developmental perspective.

I have a couple of clarifications: One, children with autism, for whatever reason, in my opinion, aren’t *able* to interact the way typically developing children do, we parents shift the way we are with them as a coping mechanism.

Regarding “experimental” – I don’t consider what we’re doing “experimenal”. Schools tend to, though. *SCHOOLS* often won’t do RDI® (which would require a huge paradigm shift) and school staff use the excuse that it’s “experimental” that there’s little-to-no research behind it – although what they at school are doing clearly isn’t working in a lot of cases (which makes me wonder why they’re so resistant to change). There is research in the works right now and there are families all over the world using RDI® with success. Additionally, RDI® is a typical course of development applied to developmental delays like autism, so it is the way typcial kids establish foundations of communication (with a parent), which is not “experimental” at all.

Here’s another article for folks if they’re interested:
http://www.phxautism.org/files/RDI_Autism_Quarterly.pdf

Penny

Comment on Everyday Life Math by A Mother and Her Autistic Daughter | Math Games for Kids Blog Math Games for Kids Blog

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:46:00 +0000

[...] written elsewhere about how “shared attention” builds a foundation for academics – though I didn’t use those words. Penny [...]

Comment on Paul the Lucky Octopus by Dr Mike

Dr Mike — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:41:53 +0000

Paul’s owners have made a serious mistake asking him to predict two games instead of just one! Now he needs both Germany and Spain to win in order to achieve eternal internet fame. Hmm…. does the fact that he picked Spain over Netherlands and Germany over Uruguay confirm my theory that Paul likes yellow? Or was I just lucky?

Comment on Paul the Lucky Octopus by ShannonC.

ShannonC. — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:11:28 +0000

I LIKE!!!!!!
2 thumbs up!

It’s just his lucky game of chance, but hey, I heard they are gonna have him ‘predict’ the finals too…

Comment on Timez Attack 3 Is Out! by Anna

Anna — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:18:55 +0000

awesome i really want it… i have the trio thing but not this one… i looks really awesome i will convince my mom and dad to buy an upgrade

Comment on Three Sons, Eleven Horses by Thomas Zheng

Thomas Zheng — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:46:23 +0000

Hi Dr Hartley,

Long time no see, was surfing your website all morning, and had a lot of fun.

Trying my best to explain the resolution.

1/2,1/4,1/6 got the common denominator 12, and to sum up we got 11/12 , so the old man left 1/12 of his possessions not distributed; or we should say the old man only got 11/12 of his possessions as a whole.

The borrowed wise man’s horse filled up the gap, and make the old man’s possession to 1 to make it easy to be devided, (the base of number, I don’t even know what I am saying. Don’t have enough Math knowledge yet.)

But the sons didn’t get exactly what stated in the old man’s will.

# Old man want to split his 11/12 in the manner of 12/12
# I would say the wise man resolved this problem, but not as the old man’s wish.

BTW, when you decided leaving researching / or specifically teaching career?

Comment on Are Asians Better At Math? by Dr Mike

Dr Mike — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:36:38 +0000

You may be right, the book merely asserted this as a reason, without giving a citation. Then again, this topic was not the main focus of the book. I wonder where one would look for evidence one way or the other, or even how one would design an experiment to test it?

Comment on Are Asians Better At Math? by AnyaNita

AnyaNita — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:00:09 +0000

Saying that students from an east asian background work harder than americans is an opinion and i sincerely doubt that that has been proved.

Comment on Is Math Really Important? by Edison U. Ratio Smart

Edison U. Ratio Smart — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:16:17 +0000

Love you post on math. I teach math/tech class to K-5 grade. By 5th grade the students are often struggling to see why they need math. Each year I try to find ways to help them,( beginning before 5th grade) see how math is used in the “real” world. I recently run across a math website designed for middle school. It is call Math Apprentice. It gives great practical, daily uses and jobs that require math. I’m already making plans to use this with my 3rd, 4th and 5th graders next year.

Here’s the link to Math Apprentice http://www.mathplayground.com/mathapprentice.html

Edison U. Ratio Smart
http://edisonuratiosmart.blogspot.com/