SamizdatMath

And we're back! This is the first of a set of "coin card" activities that I designed for our first grade teachers and which received universal "thumbs up, Robert!" from the students who used them. I even tried it out on a 2nd grader who needed some remediation and she went to town on it as well. So what's so good about these? Let me count the ways: 1) Quantity: there are 30 different cards, which means that its not so many that your kids will get lost, but not so few that they'll finish them

There are few things in my life that I find more boring than the Common Core State Standards, better known by my the acronym of my own invention, “CoCoStaSta.” Well, I’m sure there is something more boring, like watching anything produced by Khan Academy, but I guess I’m setting a pretty low bar. This is a lesson I wrote for a friend who needed a sure-shot way to impress the grand mystic imperial poo-bahs who rule the fiefdom known as his public school. I think it is such a good lesson that I’