{"id":7433,"date":"2016-10-10T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/?p=7433"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T14:00:14","slug":"vlog-ep-05-kids-figure-stuff-means-math-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/vlog-ep-05-kids-figure-stuff-means-math-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Vlog Ep #05: Kids Figure Stuff Out (And What That Means For Math Education)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever felt like banging your head on the wall when trying to get kids to learn something? Do you feel you&#8217;re not up to the task of &#8220;getting through to these kids&#8221; and <em>making<\/em> them learn something?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a simple suggestion from me: trust the kids&#8217; natural abilities to make sense of their world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gqfs22xi91k?theme=light&amp;rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t sit on your hands and leave it all in the kids&#8217; hands, of course: that isn&#8217;t what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>But allow the capabilities built into every human being to &#8220;kick in&#8221; in response to your input. It&#8217;s your job to create the best atmosphere for learning to take place; you just don&#8217;t have to make it happen due to your force of character, cajoling, pleading or other desperate tactics.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u25ba <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCE_VT9793kOu1ePBMp7X_tQ?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE to Professor Pete&#8217;s Classroom on YouTube<\/a><span> to learn more expert tips on teaching K-6 math for understanding<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Do you find this blog useful? Don&#8217;t miss another episode: Click below to register for our email notification list:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a style=' font-size: 1.5em;text-transform: uppercase;text-decoration: none;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;border: .1em solid;padding: .3em .6em;letter-spacing: .05em;color: #333;' href='javascript:\/\/' data-opf-trigger='p2c21495f157'>Register Now!<\/a><script type='text\/javascript' async='true' src='http:\/\/app.ontraport.com\/js\/ontraport\/opt_assets\/drivers\/opf.js' data-opf-uid='p2c21495f157' data-opf-params='borderColor=#ffffff&#038;borderSize=5px&#038;formHeight=667&#038;formWidth=480px&#038;popPosition=mc&#038;instance=339838551'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever felt like banging your head on the wall when trying to get kids to learn something? Do you feel you&#8217;re not up to the task of &#8220;getting through to these kids&#8221; and making them learn something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,12],"tags":[67,5,33,41,9,11,26],"class_list":["post-7433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-6-math-vlog","category-teaching-mathematics","tag-childrens-learning","tag-classroom-teacher","tag-math-for-kids","tag-math-success","tag-mathematical-thinking","tag-teaching-math","tag-video-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}