Regarding math games …What have you tried ? Many aren’t good but a few are great.

I wish people would differentiate between being good at math in school than being good at math. Someone once told me: math is the language of nature. If you wonder at the stars in the night sky, if you can think critically, if you can solve a problem by breaking it into parts, then you’re a math person. I think you’d even be surprised if you saw how much math goes into every decision you make in life in a given day, from not bumping into people you see to thinking about how much to spend on groceries

@@joinmodulo none of what you have said means I'm good at math. Im pretty bad at math.Try again.

@@joinmodulo in response to your math game question, I haven't a clue what they're called. They sucked. I didn't retain the information, sorry

@@spartan1572 Here are some of the ones our kids have enjoyed. Hopefully you can find a fit:) teachyourkids.substack.com/p/the-best-prek-12th-grade-math-curriculum?

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Thanks for the feedback - I guess I felt compelled to talk about this when I first rolled out of bed this morning...:) though like the critics of the debate, you might not be focusing on what's most important: the issues.

We've been lied to by the Democratic Party. On many, many, many things things thank godTheir reign is almost over​@@joinmodulo

Not me and not you, thankfully💕. I must imagine there are many others like us who crave truth, want to learn how to think critically, and think for ourselves …and these resources are a great start! Don’t give up Josh! Let’s start a movement !

Thank you so much for your kind words, Shawn. It really means a lot to me. It’s exciting to be collaborating together to build a pluralistic world :) sending warm wishes back to you ❤️

Thank you so much Arlene! You do such an extraordinary job growing and caring for the Blossom and Root Community. We are grateful for you!

@@joinmodulo that means a lot, thank you 🩵

Thank you so much for this great question! I had to do a bit of research, but here's what I found. The process of reading involves both whole-word recognition and phonetic decoding, and the brain uses different pathways for these tasks. Here's what the research suggests: 1. Whole-word reading: Some studies indicate that familiar words, particularly those with unique spelling-sound relationships, are processed in the ventral visual stream, accessing whole-word lexical representations. This suggests that the brain can indeed perform orthographic mapping when reading whole words by sight, separate from phonetic decoding (Wingerak et al., 2017). 2. Phonetic decoding: For unfamiliar or pseudowords, the brain engages sublexical processing pathways in the dorsal visual stream, demonstrating phonetic decoding. This process benefits from and even enhances whole-word orthographic processing (Ehri, 2014). 3. Integration of phonological and orthographic information: Even though whole-word processing and phonetic decoding might be distinct, they are interconnected. Studies show that orthographic learning is enhanced by whole-word visual processing and that phonetic decoding plays a role in the orthographic mapping process, particularly when learning new words (Bosse et al., 2015). While orthographic mapping can occur with whole-word reading by sight, phonetic decoding remains a crucial component in the reading process, particularly for unfamiliar words. The brain utilizes both lexical and sublexical pathways, depending on the familiarity and complexity of the words being read.

@@joinmodulo wow thank you for the thorough response. I’m going to dig into all of this you found. I appreciate it! Such an interesting topic and how amazing how much research has found about what the brain does when reading. It really does seem to come down to a combination of both but phonics is feeling more important than ever. I also wonder about language development in the sense of speaking and understanding - I learned English as a second language by reading Harry Potter, which is so funny how knowing that many words are made up in that book but I remember reading with a dictionary next to me. The way my brain processed a new language and mapped out an entire system of words makes sense thinking of orthographic mapping too. I feel that I am a pretty good speller in English due to how I learned the language via reading it. Just a random thought to add in! Thanks for all the info!

@@luccalele9740 It's truly incredible how much brain research has been done and how much we've learned about how human think and process information.

You are very welcome ❤️

It was such a thrill to host you Joshua. I can't wait to create a makerspace in my home!

"We don't want our kids to turn out like robots ... We want then to turn out like idiots." 🙄

Was it because of critical race applied principles taught in school?