{"id":1,"date":"2012-12-07T22:19:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2013-03-27T17:33:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:33:16","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Professor Bear Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Professor L. F. Bear and I\u2019m writing a series of workbooks that you can use for Math Club activities, enrichment, extension, or recreation.<\/p>\n<p>Get\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Professor-Bears-Math-Workbook-Alpha\/dp\/098825610X\/?tag=lfmacl-20\">Workbook Alpha on amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Get\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Professor-Bears-Coach-Manual-Alpha\/dp\/0988256118\/?tag=lfmacl-20\">Coach Manual Alpha on amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mathematics covered in the workbooks is elementary school level, but anyone can use them. I\u2019ve found this material appropriate for fourth and fifth grade students, children around 9 or 10 years of age, who are comfortable with school mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>These books arose from my work as a volunteer math coach for an elementary school math club.<\/p>\n<p>The emphasis of my work is\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0the elementary school math curriculum;\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cbringing kids up to international standards;\u201d\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0\u201csomething relevant to the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The emphasis\u00a0<strong>is<\/strong>: engaging in mathematics as a life-affirming creative pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>This is a short way of saying that mathematics is fun; it connects you to other people who are interested in having fun; it gives you opportunities to use the math parts of your brain\u2014and everyone has them.<\/p>\n<p>When you do fun math, when you connect with other people doing fun math, and when you use your math abilities to your full potential, mathematics makes you feel glad to be you.<\/p>\n<p>It is my great pleasure to write these books with no other ideal in mind.<\/p>\n<p>RRRRR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Professor L. F. Bear and I\u2019m writing a series of workbooks that you can use for Math Club activities, enrichment, extension, or recreation. Get\u00a0Workbook Alpha on amazon. Get\u00a0Coach Manual Alpha on amazon. The mathematics covered in the workbooks is elementary school level, but anyone can use them. I\u2019ve found this material appropriate for fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}