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Math Anxiety Research
by xb3 | Flickr.com | CC BY My business partner, William Devine, a licensed professional counselor, has been doing lots of research these past few weeks. He's been reading up on math anxiety and the...
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Performance vs. Understanding
This is a feature article by William Devine, MA, LPC, CART. Wil is the Research Guy at MathFour.com. The "old guard" of academics focused on rote memorization, correct answers, and academic...
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Researcher at Work!
Part of Wordless Wednesday… This is Wil Devine (@MathPsych), the Director of Research for MathFour.com, "doing research" with the Little Professor. Related articles Math Anxiety Research Performance...
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Anxiety Safe Learning Environments
Would you like to create a safe math learning environment free from anxiety? What would that look like? Let's first peek at what it doesn't look like: Adapted from image by Marshall Astor - Food...
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Do Parents See the Math Monster? Or Just Think It's There?
There were several thoughtful and intense comments to the Sylvan commercial. As promised, here is a follow-up article based on the comments. A special thanks to those commenting on the video, as this...
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Palindromes - What's Your Palindrome Number?
A palindrome is a word or phrase (or string of numbers) that reads the same front-to-back and back-to-front. Wil, the research guy, in mirror image There're the little ones, like Wow, Mom, Dad and...
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Education vs. Technology - One Advances and the Other Doesn't
Wil, the research guy, notices how technology has advanced, but education is being left behind. While on vacation recently, I met an English professor who was using a 70s era computer programming...
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Everyday Math Exposure: Just Saying It Helps
Previously in an article about math anxiety parents may feel, I mentioned how grown-ups inadvertently teach kids to be scared of certain things. It's not our fault. We learned it from adults when we...
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Understanding That's Math!
During the Texas Home School Coalition Convention, That's Math! had its "booth debut". It was a bit difficult, at first, to decide how to present it (verbally) to attendees. The Early A cialis best...
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