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Memvance - Memory Advanced: Will.I.Am and Dean Kamen Want Kids to be excited about STEM
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Friday, March 23, 2012. WillIAm and Dean Kamen Want Kids to be excited about STEM. There is an interesting piece just posted by Will.I.Am and Dean Kamen. They want to get children excited about Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. They have teamed up with several sponsors and have launched a contest that aims at doing just that, Wouldn't It Be Cool If. The submission deadline is next Wednesday, March 28th. Wouldnt it be cool if. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe Now: Feed Icon.
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Memvance - Memory Advanced: Multiplication – Times Tables
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Monday, March 12, 2012. Multiplication – Times Tables. I've been teaching my kindergartner multiplication recently. Many people might think this is not a good thing, and I partly would agree with them. There are two prerequisites for a child to learn to multiply:. Second, teach counting by 2's, 5's and ten's. Once they have these two skills down pat you can begin teaching your child multiplication. Teach the concept of the multiplicative identity, any number multiplied by one will yield the same number.
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Memvance - Memory Advanced: Pi Day is Tomorrow
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Pi Day is Tomorrow. Tomorrow is a great day, it is an official holiday to celebrate the mathematical constant Pi. Pi is a beautiful thing, it is the constant that represents the ratio of the circle's circumference over its diameter. However, it is so much more then that. There are so many relationships in nature that involve Pi, and tomorrow is a great time to teach the wonder of mathematics to your children. By substituting Pi into Euler's formula, we arrive at Euler's identity.
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Memvance - Memory Advanced: Method of Loci
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Monday, March 5, 2012. I am going to give you a well described example including the images we can up with. This is not for you to learn the associations that my son and I came up with, but the process itself. Part of what makes this technique powerful is you engage your mind coming up with the images. To commit this list to memory, imagine that the from under the front door, just like a bad horror film, that there are zombie hands reaching out trying to grab you. However imagine that they are from s...
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Memvance - Memory Advanced: Site News - Added Discussion Forum
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Monday, March 19, 2012. Site News - Added Discussion Forum. I spent some time last week installing software to host a discussion forum. As of now there is only the roots of a discussion or two, but I expect it to grow over time. The link to the forum is available from the sidebar on the main site, and directly by clicking on the following link: MemVance Discussion Forum. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe Now: Feed Icon. Subscribe in a reader. View my complete profile. How to become an expert.
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Memvance - Memory Advanced: Learn a Foreign Language - Method of Loci
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Monday, March 19, 2012. Learn a Foreign Language - Method of Loci. So for the readers that have learned about the Method of Loci. And are working to improve your memory, you might be asking yourself what would be a good thing to practice committing to memory? I have a Google spreadsheet that contains Portuguese word frequency lists. That I am working on. This spreadsheet is built from information available online in the Corpus Do Portuguese. An online repository of 45 million words from various Portugues...
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Memvance - Memory Advanced: Ted Education - Video Lessons for Students
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Ted Education - Video Lessons for Students. I have had a chance to review the material and was quite impressed by their quality and how the videos were engaging. It is my opinion that as education evolves initiatives like Ted-Ed and Khan Academy will take a bigger and bigger place in educating our children. I thought these lessons were so profound and I wanted to take a chance to share each of these videos with you and my initial thoughts upon viewing them. It is remarkable the i...
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Memvance - Memory Advanced: K Anders Ericsson and Deliberate Practice
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Saturday, March 10, 2012. K Anders Ericsson and Deliberate Practice. We all want to be an expert in our given fields. Have you ever heard that practice makes perfect? Deliberate practice requires that you constantly step outside your comfort zone. If you only practice what you are already good at, you will plateau very quickly and not improve. Only if you focus on what you aren't good at, and attempt to figure out how you can do better at it, will you succeed at becoming an expert. How to become an expert.