by Lacie Taylor | Oct 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hi my people! I’ve been travelling and retreating and wanna write you a good old-fashioned letter to catch up. Pretend this is handwriting on that stuff called paper. Sometimes people think my job is super left-brained because it’s MATH after all and because I’m all...
by Lacie Taylor | Sep 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
You don’t get better by going to lessons, or to class. You get better by practicing what you are shown in those lessons. People don’t know how to do that. They get stuck. They might get accused of lacking discipline, but I don’t even think that. I think it’s...
by Lacie Taylor | Jul 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Yo. What is Spaced Repetition? I like to describe it like this: it’s when you rope a skill back into your orbit right before you’re about to lose it. You space your practice of skills so that they’re always timed as close to that about-to-lose it point as...
by Lacie Taylor | Jun 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
How is MFK different from tutoring? Let me count the ways. Here’s one… I can’t pretend to know what all tutors out there do but I can tell you what I used to do before I zeroed in on this method. I showed my students Way. Too. Much. Stuff. I showed them the Way Too...
by Lacie Taylor | Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
This blog post is especially for those of you who need to be ready for Algebra 2 sometime soon, so if you just finished Geometry and will take Algebra 2 next year, OR, even better, for if you just finished Algebra 1, because then there’s more time to prepare. (more...
by Lacie Taylor | Apr 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Math For Keeps MANIFESTO At Math For Keeps, I describe skill fluency using a Math Number—this is a number representation of the skills you have in the bag. It is NOT the number of skills you’ve been shown. Being shown a skill and being given opportunity and guidance...
