What I Learned from Tutoring Online for 18 Months

It’s late August of 2021, and I am now working with all of my students in person, some masked, some vaccinated. I’m almost ready to cancel my expensive subscription to Zoom, but I probably won’t, because I am open to working with some students online who live too far away for in-person tutoring. Nevertheless, I’m… Continue reading What I Learned from Tutoring Online for 18 Months

The Power of Ten

Schoolchildren in the lower grades spend a lot of time learning that our number system is a place value system based on ten and powers of ten. A daily activity in the second-grade classroom in which I student taught was counting ten small “ones blocks” and replacing them with one larger ten block. Students eventually… Continue reading The Power of Ten