As I have mentioned in the past, my older daughter Beth is a super star computer programmer. Currently she is working in a programming environment that is based on pairs of programmers working as a team.

In this type of programming, one member of the team carefully describes the team’s immediate (and modest) programming task and how the programming code to be written will be tested on a computer.  The second member of the team develops the code, with the first member looking on, looking for errors in programming, and mentally testing the correctness of the code.

David Moursund and Robert Albrecht are pleased to announce  that their co-authored math education book described below is now available free on the Web. Please help us disseminate this information.

Moursund, David and Albrecht, Robert (2011). Using math games and word problems to increase the math maturity of K-8 students. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. (210 pages)

My colleague Bob Sylwester (we co-author the IAE Newsletter http://iae-pedia.org/IAE_Newsletter) has spent much of his professional career and years of retirement focusing on brain science. For a number of years he wrote a column for Scientific Learning Corporation, a company that developed the FastForward software designed to help students get better at reading. The company’s focus is on developing products that are based on brain research. The 100 columns  Bob produced are available online at http://brainconnection.positscience.com/library/?main=talkhome/columnists.

Click here to learn about and download Dave Moursund's free book on science and technology education for teaches and parents of K-8 children.

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