Parenting expert Pamela Paul’s “No, Your Kid Shouldn’t Get a Gold Star for Reading” article in the NY Times Sunday Review explains how rewarding children for reading sends the messages that reading is a chore. Same goes for math. Except that many fewer Americans see math as something that should, or even can, be fun. The best
This article points out that young people need practice in math in order to develop fluency. It is not enough to be able to figure out that 6×8 is 48 (although that is a good place to start). Owning those math facts completely makes all higher level math dramatically easier. The same is true all
Please join us Monday evening May 7th at Prospect to celebrate your child’s achievement in mathematics. They will be given the opportunity to show you how they have enjoyed math in the Du Bois Fraction Club and/or the Du Bois Math Soccer Camp. We welcome your family anytime from 6:15 to 7:30 PM. We welcome
The Du Bois Project of Oberlin has been saying for years that children learn better when they are active. This article in the New York Times references research showing that children learn more if they are given frequent opportunities to be active during the school day.
The DuBois Project is proud to be featured in the Oberlin News Tribune again this week. Thank you for the great photos of the Math Fair and Celebration and for coming out to see families ‘take a trip around the world’ with math. Read about the fifth annual math fair in the Oberlin News Tribune
The Chronicle Telegram covered us on Wednesday January 25th, 2017
How cool is it that Oberlin school children are participating in similar games with the goal of making math fun as children at Bendemeer Primary School in Singapore as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp2nqf4A-XE? It’s very cool because in the last 6 offerings of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) (an international
When the mathletes arrived at Math Soccer Camp, they noticed the t-shirts worn by the coaches and assistant coaches. Was it their uniform? It certainly made it easy to identify them! There was much excitement when the mathletes received their own shirts toward the end of the week! It’s a little thing that went a
It is so exciting to see children who have learned to love math through the Du Bois Project grow up and share their love of math, as rising ninth graders, with elementary students. Two mathletes who were terrific assistant coaches in the 2016 Du Bois Math Soccer Camp are featured in this 2011 video: Kayliana
Fifth Annual Math Fair and Celebration
Please join us Tuesday evening May 2nd at Prospect to celebrate your child’s achievement in mathematics. They will be given the opportunity to show you how they have enjoyed math in the Du Bois Fraction Club and/or the Du Bois Math Soccer Camp. We welcome your family anytime from 6:15 to 7:30 PM.