Category: math-and-edu

Reading Time: 2 minutes (有人在小红书上问 #圣路易斯 哪里比较 #安全,我猜可能是华大学生,以下是我的回答):综合考虑,建议住 #Clayton, #Brentwood, #Olivette 等。如果有上K-12的小孩,学区来讲,Olivette (Ladue), 和 Clayton 是密苏里公立学校/学区里面第一和第二名。Brentwood ranked 12th in the state of Missouri on Niche.com. 其它也有不少地方是安全的,比如 Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Maryland Heights, 绝大部份的 west county, south county. West county 和south county 要稍远一些。 我自己的的经历 我从2000年秋天到圣路易斯。一开始在Bridgeton (机场✈️附近)住了一年。住在那里的主要原因是当时我刚到圣路易斯,我有一个朋友住在那个小区,那个公寓离我上班的地方(办公室)也挺近。This is the apartment. I think it’s generally okay to live there – besides 2 or

stlplace
October 11, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes This probably should be the series 2 of Ladue high school, we are coming, series I is here and I wrote it about 9 months ago. Now it’s real – which means, every morning, I have to be patient about the traffic on Warson road. And I am very proud to announce: so far I

stlplace
September 1, 2024

Reading Time: 5 minutes I am not 100% sure how much the below section is applicable to the kids in the Ladue School nowadays. Couple things though: 1) Math is mostly a universal kind of course, meaning, there is no American math, or Chinese math, or Indian math,… there is only one math: we want our kids to learn

stlplace
August 10, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes A math (algebra) visualization tool – mathway Bumped into it as this morning my 14 year old asked me a question related to this. Her question is about the “parabola shape and formula”, or how they become narrow or wide. For me I think I probably learned this about 40 years ago (at my 6th

stlplace
May 3, 2024

Reading Time: 6 minutes What is it? (overview) It’s a “practice and timed test combo” for math fact, plus some word problems (problem solving). It’s owned by Diana D and she has run this program in the area for about 18+ years. Some people may compare it with Kumon, Mathnasium etc. I don’t have much knowledge on the latter.

stlplace
November 14, 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes There are a few ways to solve for it. I am aware of 3. For the problem above, I tried to guess 1st. Because the numbers are easy. A few years ago I came across the bar model approach from “Math in Focus“, because the school my daughter attends start adopting that math curriculum. Below

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October 18, 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes (Update 11-16-2023) I created a MFS FAQ blog post today: I used some of the content below, plus some of the common questions being asked in last year or so. In the future, I will try to maintain/update that one. (Update 11-02-2023) A few parents asked about the “1st test” PDF file. It’s the first

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September 5, 2022
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