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Clock time

April 24, 2009

IMG_3750.JPG, originally uploaded by MzMuze. Rio is interested in learning to read a clock. I noticed at MotherMirth’s house the other day a clock with extra numbers on it to indicate what that long hand was up to. Hers was elegant; my imitation of it is obviously messy. This is typical of us. This learning [...]

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Today on grown-up homeschooling…

April 2, 2009

…I was playing with a set of wooden alphabet blocks on the floor with my homeschool group. We were trying to build a pyramid, and in the process of constructing it a little lightbulb went off: each layer is a square, and contains successive square numbers. Duh. Seventeen years of formal education, and “square numbers” [...]

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Interstitial learning, multiplied

March 26, 2009

Martin and I share a belief we call “interstitial learning”, which could be summed up as the notion that kids learn in between the stuff of their lives. Not when they’re doing a lesson or studying a book, but at some moment when they’rejust living and the pieces they’ve been exposed to fall into place. [...]