Teaching Math...
CommonSenseMath. org stands in contrast to knowing math mostly as something you learn from textbooks or teachers and are expected to memorize. Instead, you are helped to discover math more by answering questions than by being told. You learn from your own intuitive understanding, from your common-sense answers. Your knowledge belongs to you. It stands in contrast to a jumble of rules and procedures that clog your brain. It is liberating. The approach is significantly different than what is currently done. It is pretty close to a paradigm shift. It aims to affect dismal national statistics and help all enjoy math and welcome it as a natural dimension of their daily lives.
New Approach to Learning and Knowing Math!
Teaching to Intuition
Written for all those who teach math, whether teachers or parents, and for those interested in rethinking math to bring about better results and greater equity.
Making Friends with Numbers
A collection of work-sheets that gradually combine the discovery of patterns and thinking strategies with playful ways of learning, practicing and reviewing multiplication facts.
Grow Your Brain
This book is no longer available. Its material is being recast as an interactive video. The expectation is that the video will do for 1st and 2nd grade children what Making Friends with Numbers does for students in 3rd grade and above.
A Sampling of Amazon Reviews
Written by parents, these reviews of Making Friends with Numbers all describe children of different ages and abilities taking pleasure in feeling themselves learn in creative and efficient ways. What could be boring and repetitive teaches multiplication facts and also math concepts and a love of math. The workbook is well worth the cost of a couple of cups of coffee at Starbucks.
My thanks to those parents who took the trouble to write.
Edric Cane says:
As the author of Making Friends with Numbers, I am in awe of what these homeschooling parents say about the real experts on the material: the students themselves. Parents describe students of very different ages and abilities who loved the workbook because they found themselves learning. It seems that it did not only teach them facts; it taught a love of math.
Edric Cane
Edric Cane has a PhD from the University of Michigan. He spent two years as a Besse Scholar at Saint Antony’s College (Oxford University, England). He has taught in Europe, in Africa, and at Oberlin College (Ohio) and Occidental College (Los Angeles).
He taught math as a lead teacher in a 95% minority high school
in Los Angeles.
Edric now lives near Sacramento, California. The originality of Teaching to Intuition reflects to some degree the variety of his experiences and interests.