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Aaron Holder teaches Year 3 at Kangaroo Island Community Education. He ordered a set of Year 3/4 Maths With Attitude eManuals and then sent this email:

Manuals received. I will print, read and play with the students. I use Maths300 a lot and this resource seemed a natural complement.
I have seen a marvellous transformation in my students since the start of the year, when they arrived very much maths anxious, dependent on worksheets and traditional algorithms and just "hating maths". Now they celebrate doing maths and have tangible evidence they are capable of being successful.
We have a long way to go however.

They have arrived and we have already started by playing the game NIM. The kids love it. It only took a few minutes for the most confident mathematicians to work out that the starting player should force the second to take an odd number of plugs each time. It was accessible to all the kids, from those who need significant support, to those who would be quite comfortable in a grade 4 classroom.

We cannot / must not tell students how to think, we must make them aware of their thinking and that you can think in different ways and yet be right! The book does not think and there are, in every class, students who think smarter than we do! We are also responsible for them!
September 14, https://www.om-matematik.se/

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