Archive for December 9th, 2009

Speed Reading:Work on Eye Movements

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

There are hundreds of students who have been struggling to read faster. This perhaps is one of the most important causes for students not doing well in ‘reading comprehension’. However, parents have a reason to cheer up as with a little, consistent practice children can improve their reading speed.

The solution lies in (more…)

Mental Math: Math is FUN

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Long division problems are a nightmare for everyone- children (who have to solve them), teachers (who have to demonstrate solutions to such problems), and finally parents (who have to help their children with homework).

Most teachers prefer using (more…)

Forget Sudoku Welcome Kenken

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

How about a fun puzzle whose inventor believes in ‘the art of teaching without teaching’? Derived from the Japanese word that means ‘cleverness’, KenKen or KenDoku is a logical puzzle invented by a Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto in the year ’04.

KenKen combines the logic of (more…)

Education System: Then and Now

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

A few days back I had a friend and her husband drop in at my house. They wanted to have a discussion on the changes taking place in the current education system, schools in particular. They believed that the current schooling system was more productive than the one that existed in their time.

I could not deny the fact that most of us use our schooling system as a benchmark for measuring our kids’ schooling. However, there is no scientific proof that this formula would work. This led to (more…)