General advice on helping your child(ren) with math homework while encouraging them to do the problem-solving.
“4 and 2 make 6, and 3 and 3 make 6, and 5 and 1 make 6. How will I know if I’ve found them all?”
This is an amazing question.
I think the first step for parents might be to evaluate less and join more.
If the outcome of a conversation about your child’s thinking is either to feel impressed or disappointed, then you are evaluating.
Matt Waite, a professor and software pioneer, had to take remedial algebra to get an MBA degree at 37, and found he was not actually Bad at Math: "the truth is anyone can get math."
Jo Boaler makes the case against an emphasis in math instruction on speed and memorization of "math facts" like times tables, and in favor of "number sense".
Comparing the "old ways" and "new ways" of doing math, to explain why some Common Core elementary math standards, and the teaching techniques used to teach them, are the way they are. The video shows a girl making sense of mixed # -> improper fraction where trying to memorize the algorithm had led her astray.
Tony Vincent's list on Pinterest of iOS apps for learning that are temporarily marked as free.