It might sound simplistic, but these are the things your kid’s brain needs to grow.
Cognitive Science
My 5th grader had blasted through his long division problems. But they were all wrong. He had clearly forgotten the steps to solving long division …
How to help your slow learner win the race of learning.
We all know kids are different. Yet we all have brains made out of the same stuff. So do the differences in our kids mean …
There has been a push in modern education to shift away from teaching kids about stuff (like facts & concepts & patterns) to attempting to …
We are all familiar with the term “drill and kill”, yet we also know that practice makes perfect. “It is virtually impossible to become proficient …
One of the ultimate goals of schooling, or academic work, is the ability for abstract thought. We hope children will not only remember the things …
We cannot store every piece of information our brain encounters in our memory. How does it decide what needs to be remembered? Well, since our …
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Without knowledge of facts, it is hard to think. Thought is not a vacuum and our brains need facts as a framework for thought. (You …
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people engage in it.” – Henry Ford The first cognitive …