Posts Tagged: Conversions

Why Learn Conversions???

  “The journey for an education starts with a childhood question.”     – David L. Finn As I played “Conversion Concentration” with a small group of students at the Games Station, one student asked the inevitable question about conversions, “Why do we have to learn this stuff?”…

A.K.A. Decimals

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” -Lloyd Alexander “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” -Albert Einstein I was never more aware of how important hands-on instruction is until I taught concepts like decimals.…