Reading and solving word problems in math class
The article discusses how word problems build logical thinking and problem solving, emphasizing two tasks: understanding the text and translating it into math terms. It notes that reading ability affects math learning, and that teaching methods often value the solution process as much as the correct answer.
Helping Your Child Master Problem Solving at Home
The article promotes teaching problem solving like math steps. Four steps include understand, decide approach, do calculations, and check results. Parents model thinking aloud, encourage solutions, and avoid rushing. Emphasizes practice, patience, and reducing anxiety. Sunday kitchen math.
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Hank Aaron
Babe Ruth
Dear Abby column letters on lies donors and birds
A reader asks how to handle an 11 year old who lies for attention and a clergyman asks about sperm donation. Abby advises counseling, school or pediatrician referral. The correspondent in Anaheim is teased about a noise solution for mockingbirds.
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Abby
Anaheim
Ohio
Marion Community Center Weekly Activities
The Marion Community Center outlines a full week of events from Oct 17 including volleyball and Friendship Club on Sunday, Learning Center sessions Monday through Friday, multiple music and dance classes, Headstart, lessons in square dancing and taxidermy, Steward training, art and drama classes, and Collins Women's Basketball at noon.
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Marion Community Center
Dominics
Friendship Club
Diamond Square
Kirkwood Community College
Afscme
Carl Ohrt
Rapid Square
Steward
Creative Events Council
Collins
Marion Briefs Pay Talks at School Board Meeting
The Marion Education Association will present its initial salary proposal to the Marion Independent school board Monday at 5 p.m. in the Longfellow Administration building. Also, an Art and Craft Show is slated for Saturday and Sunday at Marion Heights Shopping Center.
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Marion Education Education
Marion Independent School Board
Longfellow
Marion Heights Shopping Center
Marion cemetery fence bid approved by city department
A low bid of 4758.48 from Sears Roebuck and Co. was accepted by the Marion Park Department to install a new fence on the east side of the city cemetery. The project replaces the former fence and is scheduled for 8:10 a.m. Friday with medical assistance at South 14th Street and C Avenue.
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Marion Park Department
Sears Roebuck and Co
South 14Th Street
C Avenue
Scrambles Puzzle Entry Instructions and Prizes
Instructions for entering a puzzle contest ask participants to clip the completed puzzle and include name address and telephone number. Mail entry to The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa with official envelope markings and drop at The Gazette location. Daily prize at stake and grand prize drawn from entries received by November 25.
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Scrambir
P.O
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Third Avenue
the Gazette
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