Posts Tagged ‘school’

Montessori Math Methods : Large Decimal Montessori Materials

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Curious about Montessori curriculum? Learn how Montessori teaches decimals to preschoolers in this free educational video clip about Montessori math methods.

Expert: Tami Elliot
Contact: www.northstarmontessoripreschool.com
Bio: Tami Elliot is the owner and a teacher at the Northstar Montessori Preschool.
Filmmaker: Travis Waack

Duration : 0:1:55

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©Magic Math for 7’s Multiplication, Learning the Times Table

Friday, August 14th, 2009

http://RightBrainMath.com patent pending teaching system from Mister Numbers uses the Magic Blackboard to teach a way to create multiplying by 7 in a fun way from patterns. Share this fun video with a parent or kid.This teaches a positive attitude toward math and pattern recognition, as well as teaching the times table. The book, EZ Times Table also teaches fun ways to do the Twos, Threes, Fours, Sixes, Eights, and Nines from simple patterns as well as isting kids as young as kindergarten to make the whole times table on one page.
http://RightBrainMath.com Playful patterns create all the times tables. On a tic-tac-toe square you put the numbers 1-9. In seconds you can create the Sevens multiplication table. It is fun and easy patterns that create 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, and 63. And there are ways to continue the pattern to reveal multiplication of the Sevens to 100 x 7 and beyond. There are also playful patterns for creating the Ones, Twos, Threes, Fours, Sixes (five different ways) Sevens, Eights, Nines, and even the whole times table on a blank table. Kids, Teachers, Parents, and schools will benefit from this fun way to approach the times table that creates a positive attitude about math. The editor of Curriculum Review magazine says, “I like the book [EZ Times Table] because it is user-friendly and can be utilized with a variety of grade-school children.” See the book EZ Times Table available on Amazon.com and on the website RightBrainMath.com.

Duration : 0:5:5

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Alain Badiou. Destruction, Negation, Subtraction. 2007 2/10

Friday, August 14th, 2009

http://www.egs.edu/ Alain Badiou, Avital Ronnell talking about the process of negation, objectivity, creation, affirmation, subtraction and destruction as well as literature, poetry, music, Schoenberg, tonality, musical discourse, evolution, revolution, politics, and marxist ideology. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007. Alain Badiou, born 1937, in Rabat, Morocco is a prominent French Left-wing philosopher, former chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure ENS. Alain Badiou, Ph.D: Plato and Rene Descartes Chair at EGS, born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou was a student at the école Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chair of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great antiphilosophers Saint-Paul, Paul the Apostle, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Lacan to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou’s life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the centre of L’Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues including immigration, labor, and housing. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works.
He is the author of Philosophy, Le concept de modèle 1969, Théorie du sujet 1982, Peut-on penser la politique? 1985, L’Être et l’Événement 1988, Manifeste pour la philosophie 1989, Le nombre et les nombres 1990, Conditions 1992, L’Éthique 1993, 2005, Deleuze 1997, Saint Paul. La fondation de l’universalisme 1997, 2002, Abrégé de métapolitique 1998, Court traité d’ontologie provisoire 1998, Petit manuel d’inesthétique 1998, D’un désastre obscur 1998, Logiques des mondes. L’être et l’événement, 2. 2006. Badiou wrote several dramas, critical or political essays including Rhapsodie pour le théâtre 1990, Beckett, l’increvable désir 1995, Le Siècle 2005; Literature and drama:Almagestes 1964, Portulans 1967, L’Écharpe rouge 1979, Ahmed le subtil 1994, Ahmed Philosophe, followed by Ahmed se fâche 1995, Les Citrouilles, a comedy 1996, Calme bloc ici-bas 1997; Théorie de la contradiction 1975, De l’idéologie, with F. Balmès 1976, Le Noyau rationnel de la dialectique hégelienne, with L. Mossot and J. Bellassen 1977, Circonstances 1 2003, Circonstances 2 2004, Circonstances 3 2005.
Several articles and essays have been translated into English: Art as a Place for Politics Video Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 11/16, 2006, Truth Procedure in Politics Video Abreu Gallery, New York, 2006, Truth Procedure in Art Video Tilton Gallery, New York, 11/17, 2006, Jacques Lacan’s Seminar On Anxiety Video The Drawing Center, New York, 2006,The Contemporary Figure of the Soldier in Politics and Poetry, UCLA, Destruction, Negation, Subtraction Art Center College of Design Pasadena,The Uses of the Word Jew, The Adventure of French Philosophy, Behind the Scarfed Law, There is Fear On the French headscarf ban, Bodies, Languages Truths, The Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution, Democratic Materialism and the Materialist Dialectic, The Desire for Philosophy and the Contemporary World, Destruction, Negation, Subtraction on Pier Paolo Pasolini, Eight Theses on the Universal, An Essential Philosophical Thesis: It Is Right to Rebel against the Reactionaries, The Event in Deleuze, Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art, The Formulas of L’Etourdit, The Factory as Event Site, Further Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution, Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy from Metapolitics, Lacan and the Pre-Socratics, A Musical Variant of the Metaphysics of the Subject, Number and Numbers, On the European Constitution, On the Truth-Process, One Divides into Two On Lenin, Philosophical Considerations of the Very Singular Custom of Voting, Philosophy as Creative Repetition, Philosophy and Politics, The Political as a Truth Procedure from Metapolitics, Politics: a Non-expressive Dialectics, The Scene of Two English translation from De l’amour, Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution, The Subject of Art Deitch Projects, New York, 1 April 2005, The Triumphant Restoration, What Happens On Beckett, What is to be Thought What is to be Done On the 2002 French elections; written by Badiou Sylvain Lazarus and Natasha Michel, A Musical Variant of the Metaphysics of the Subject, The Event in Deleuze, What is a Philosophical Institution, What is Love.

Duration : 0:10:0

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Basic Math: Lesson 6 - #10 - Subtraction of Fractions

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Concepts covered: Subtraction of Improper and Proper Fractions and also Mixed Numbers.

Duration : 0:10:25

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Alain Badiou. Destruction, Negation, Subtraction. 2007 1/10

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

http://www.egs.edu/ Alain Badiou, Avital Ronnell talking about the process of negation, objectivity, creation, affirmation, subtraction and destruction as well as literature, poetry, music, Schoenberg, tonality, musical discourse, evolution, revolution, politics, and marxist ideology. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007. Alain Badiou, born 1937, in Rabat, Morocco is a prominent French Left-wing philosopher, former chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure ENS. Alain Badiou, Ph.D: Plato and Rene Descartes Chair at EGS, born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou was a student at the école Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chair of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great antiphilosophers Saint-Paul, Paul the Apostle, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Lacan to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou’s life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the centre of L’Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues including immigration, labor, and housing. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works.
He is the author of Philosophy, Le concept de modèle 1969, Théorie du sujet 1982, Peut-on penser la politique? 1985, L’Être et l’Événement 1988, Manifeste pour la philosophie 1989, Le nombre et les nombres 1990, Conditions 1992, L’Éthique 1993, 2005, Deleuze 1997, Saint Paul. La fondation de l’universalisme 1997, 2002, Abrégé de métapolitique 1998, Court traité d’ontologie provisoire 1998, Petit manuel d’inesthétique 1998, D’un désastre obscur 1998, Logiques des mondes. L’être et l’événement, 2. 2006. Badiou wrote several dramas, critical or political essays including Rhapsodie pour le théâtre 1990, Beckett, l’increvable désir 1995, Le Siècle 2005; Literature and drama:Almagestes 1964, Portulans 1967, L’Écharpe rouge 1979, Ahmed le subtil 1994, Ahmed Philosophe, followed by Ahmed se fâche 1995, Les Citrouilles, a comedy 1996, Calme bloc ici-bas 1997; Théorie de la contradiction 1975, De l’idéologie, with F. Balmès 1976, Le Noyau rationnel de la dialectique hégelienne, with L. Mossot and J. Bellassen 1977, Circonstances 1 2003, Circonstances 2 2004, Circonstances 3 2005.
Several articles and essays have been translated into English: Art as a Place for Politics Video Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 11/16, 2006, Truth Procedure in Politics Video Abreu Gallery, New York, 2006, Truth Procedure in Art Video Tilton Gallery, New York, 11/17, 2006, Jacques Lacan’s Seminar On Anxiety Video The Drawing Center, New York, 2006,The Contemporary Figure of the Soldier in Politics and Poetry, UCLA, Destruction, Negation, Subtraction Art Center College of Design Pasadena,The Uses of the Word Jew, The Adventure of French Philosophy, Behind the Scarfed Law, There is Fear On the French headscarf ban, Bodies, Languages Truths, The Cultural Revolution: The Last Revolution, Democratic Materialism and the Materialist Dialectic, The Desire for Philosophy and the Contemporary World, Destruction, Negation, Subtraction on Pier Paolo Pasolini, Eight Theses on the Universal, An Essential Philosophical Thesis: It Is Right to Rebel against the Reactionaries, The Event in Deleuze, Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art, The Formulas of L’Etourdit, The Factory as Event Site, Further Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution, Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy from Metapolitics, Lacan and the Pre-Socratics, A Musical Variant of the Metaphysics of the Subject, Number and Numbers, On the European Constitution, On the Truth-Process, One Divides into Two On Lenin, Philosophical Considerations of the Very Singular Custom of Voting, Philosophy as Creative Repetition, Philosophy and Politics, The Political as a Truth Procedure from Metapolitics, Politics: a Non-expressive Dialectics, The Scene of Two English translation from De l’amour, Selections from Théorie du sujet on the Cultural Revolution, The Subject of Art Deitch Projects, New York, 1 April 2005, The Triumphant Restoration, What Happens On Beckett, What is to be Thought What is to be Done On the 2002 French elections; written by Badiou Sylvain Lazarus and Natasha Michel, A Musical Variant of the Metaphysics of the Subject, The Event in Deleuze, What is a Philosophical Institution, What is Love.

Duration : 0:9:53

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Fractions 3: Dividing

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

More at http://www.mathtv.com

This is the third part of an in depth review of fractions.

Duration : 0:6:5

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Rounding a Decimal

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Mathcast on how to “Round a Decimal”. Features 6th graders, “bob” and “paul”. From Mathtrain.com with Mr. Marcos at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.

Duration : 0:2:43

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Basic Math: Lesson 4 - Properties of Numbers

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

This lesson consists of providing you with a Self-Tutorial of the basic properties of numbers. These are the ones I discuss:
The Reflexive Property of Equality, The Symmetric Property of Equality, The Transitive Property of Equality, The Substitution Property, The Additive Property of Equality, The Cancellation Law of Addition, The Multiplicative Property of Equality, Cancellation Law of Multiplication, The Zero-Factor Property, The Law of Trichotomy, The Transitive Property of Inequality, Properties of Absolute Value, The Closure Property of Addition, The Closure Property of Multiplication, The Commutative Property of Addition, The Commutative Property of Multiplication, The ociative Property of Addition, The ociative Property of Multiplication, The Identity Property of Addition, The Identity Property of Multiplication, The Inverse Property of Addition, The Inverse Property of Multiplication, The Distributive Law of Multiplication Over Addition, The Distributive Law of Multiplication Over Subtraction, The General Distributive Property and The Negation Distributive Property.

Duration : 0:38:28

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Fractions 4: Adding and Subtracting

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

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Part four of the fractions series talks about combining fractions with the SAME denominator

Duration : 0:7:44

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Multiplication by Fours & Sixes, Learning the Times Table Stars

Monday, July 13th, 2009

http://RightBrainMath.com This video is a great way to learn the times table and multiplication in a friendly way. Using number circles to create star patterns. Plays with patterns. This is a right brain approach, a teaching strategy to see an overview of factor sets. All MisterNumber videos are a full five stars. Please leave feedback or email me if you like them. The book, EZ Times Table is available on Amazon and comes with 8 extra free worksheets.
http://RightBrainMath.com Math times table created from fun patterns as a way to learn multiplication tables for Fours and Sixes. This video also teaches place value. This video has the student create worksheets where they can learn the times tables. This is useful for teaching math in a classroom, at home, as part of homeschool or as fun homework. Right Brain Math can teach Elementary Students. Curriculum Review magazine calls it a revolutionary approach to introducing math. It is also very effective for remedial math for students who have fallen behind in math. Learning the multiplication tables are crucial for a student taking algebra. The Right Brain approach has helped many kids who have a negative attitude about math or numbers. http://RightBrainMath.com
Right Brain Math is an easy, effective, visual method of teaching multiplication as well as addition, subtraction, or division. It also helps students learn factors.
Because it uses visual and auditory patterns as a teaching strategies, it appeals to many learning styles because it emphasizes patterns and puzzles and overviews.
Kids see the big picture of the multiplication tables first, and then understand how the individual factors relate to each other. http://RightBrainMath.com

Duration : 0:3:52

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