Like all areas of math, fraction concepts need to be communicated to young children with developmentally appropriate hands-on experiences and lots of play. Concrete objects like pattern blocks and 3D fraction shapes allow children to make sense of new math concepts or abstract ideas. Children need to have experiences with fractions that: incorporate your senses
The longer I work with clients, the more I realize that most of us with food issues are simply suffering in some way and are looking for love/comfort. We can have a very loving relationship with another person, but if we don’t love ourselves, something is missing and we use food to fill the void.
Following the sad and tragic deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, we are all reminded of how fragile our lives can be and how quickly things can change. The death of these two iconic figures should be a call for many to get their estate plan in order. It should be noted that the
We can feel hopeless and helpless when we experience chronic abuse or repeated obstacles. You may feel trapped in poverty or in an unhappy relationship. You could either be dealing with your own addiction or that of someone else who feels powerless to change. You may be experiencing a debilitating health condition or repeated failures
If the traditional method of kenneling worked better than the rack/crate method, I’d still be using it. The traditional kennel method is a kennel large enough for the puppy to stand up, turn around and lie down. There is no food, water, toys, or enough room to stretch out. If you don’t get up in
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a secret heart of darkness, shrouded in mystery and well hidden from view. Within this strange region resides a powerful gravitational beast, a super massive black hole called Sagittarius A*–Prayed Sgr A* (pronounced saj-a-star) for short, weighing millions of times more than our Sun. Although Sgr A* has kept
A 2005 investigation by Johns Hopkins University and the Philadelphia Education Fund revealed that as many as half of all Philadelphia high school dropouts showed signs that predicted their early exit from school as early as the sixth grade. Four factors were essential in predicting these AWOL students: poor attendance, poor behavior, failing math, and
Someone recently contacted me and said that they were trying to “order medifast as cheaply as possible.” In this sense, she stressed that he wanted to pay “only for food” and was looking for the “cheapest distributor”. There were a lot of things I had to explain to answer her questions. I figured if she
Is there such a thing as truly useless junk? I think not, particularly in light of the vast amount of information on how to reuse things of little value. Things that most people underestimate, for example, glass, wood, wood pulp, paper, used rubber tires and in the scope of this article. I guess it really
With the pervasiveness of mobile devices, it makes sense that mobile devices themselves are key to communications between a cheating spouse or partner. Technology has created mobile devices that are essentially gateways to information (the internet) and communication (email, social media, text messaging, etc.). iPhones in particular are used by many consumers as their smartphone