Answer by dendari · Mar 30, 2013 at 10:51 AM
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Answer by Jennifer · Sep 03, 2013 at 04:45 AM
As a math tutor, I don't know how many times I have to say to a student "hmmm. . . just tell me what makes sense". The concept that math should make sense, is freeing but sadly foreign to students. I say, I don't care if its right, just does it make sense? That is the only pathway to the answer. I believe math anxiety comes from the acceptance of things that don't make sense. The child has nothing to cling to if they can't make sense of it. I love Jo Boaler's Math talk for that very reason. Lets just have a conversation about math that makes sense, but I know I'm preaching to the choir here.