Special Education

I was looking for some old files when I came across my SPED folder. I have so much to thank for the day I decided to pursue Special Education as that gave me the chance to meet all the beautiful people and experiences that made me who I am now. Paying forward is the best thank you that I could give to them.

With one of my students in the Mentally Challenged Class at City Central School, CDO. 90% o the students here have Down Syndrome.

Old SPED Reaction Paper

Coffee Break

Time for break. I used to be sooooo into gifs - it always made me smile and most of the time laugh (until today it still give me a good laugh). 

Algebra - Lesson 5

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Lesson 5 is about learning how to set up equation by taking away jacks. You do the process of taking away jacks on one side first because it is being asked for (e.g. 2x - x = ....... or ...... = 3x - 2x). After that, you can

Algebra Worksheets - Lesson 4

Lesson 4 is still Legal Moves, but this time it's for the red dices. Like in Lesson 3, what you do to one side of the balance (see that yellow board where they work on the jacks and dices? the picture is a balance scale.), you do the same to the other side. Take away one red dice on the left side, you take away one red dice on the right side - "take here, take there". Your control of error is that there is always a number value left on one side after taking away (subtraction) the same value from each side.

Algebra Worksheets - Lesson 3

                   

So in Lesson 3, what the children will learn is that there is what you call in HOE (which I call Hands-On Algebra, by the way) as Legal Move - Jacks. what it means is that whenever you do something to one side, you do the same to the other side. Say, if you take away a jack from one side, you take away the same

Algebra Worksheets - Lesson 2

In Lesson 1, the worksheets provided practice equations for its objective which is balancing an equation through trial and error. The children don't have to memorize any formula. Explain to them that equation is

Algebra Worksheets - Lesson 1

    The cubes and jack stones are good, the board will be replaced (need something better to accommodate 

     my playful jack stones.

WELCOME

I say welcome, again, to all of you who have reached this page.  Why? Because I consider this stage as a new level of my blogging content.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE...

How long has it been? Nine months? Yeah, about that long.

Long story short - the last months were spent putting up Marion Business School. Now it's time to write the new books for next school year. Almost done now with Algebra workbook and Fractions will definitely follow. ( I think i should post sample pages of those equations.... guess I would.)

Had a couple of days to take a walk (after doctor's appointment and walking to where we parked the car at Beverly Hills (LA) and attended a graduation party (Vegas) in between writing.