As a girl who almost failed math, I can say that conceptual problems are difficult to deal with. It's much easier for me to learn with actual *things*. I used toothpicks or marbles or whatever for basic equations like the one you're showing above.
Sort of along those lines, Stan Rogers has an interesting blog entry about differing learning styles:
As a girl who almost failed math, I can say that conceptual problems are difficult to deal with. It's much easier for me to learn with actual *things*. I used toothpicks or marbles or whatever for basic equations like the one you're showing above.
Sort of along those lines, Stan Rogers has an interesting blog entry about differing learning styles:
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