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THE
CORE MATERIAL
Published articles, for which I hold the copyright, may also be
downloaded directly from the following archives.
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The Socrates Method workbook for 9 to 19 year olds: Learning Mathematics
in Ten Minutes A Day.
This is a 30 page reading and drawing book for children. Although originally
written for elementary pupils, my senior pupils who translated it into
other languages enjoyed it as well and urged me to extend its range
to include them too: hence the current title. It is intended to be photocopied
by a teacher for a whole class – and this is what you are really
buying: a licence to make these copies – but it can be used as
well by children at home. It has therefore two introductions: for teachers
and for parents, both explain how to limit progress to just one day
at a time per week, but also to encourage students to begin to use what
they are learning. Mathematics is by no means the only subject that
can be learnt more naturally in this way (a fact that was once communicated
to me with great excitement and in the strictest secrecy by one of my
pupils), but because this is where I began, I have kept the original
title. If your students will just learn to read aloud, and listen to
themselves for just ten minutes a day, or alternatively to listen to
others and discuss ideas with them, they will soon be astonished to
discover how easily and how enjoyable it is to become independent of
their teacher and able to direct their learning themselves. The children
who enter secondary education able to read their textbooks already will
stay streets ahead of their peers - as well as becoming the most popular
leaders in their class! If they keep up the habit, this is guaranteed.
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Teaching the Socrates Way
This is a four page A5 guide with just three pages of text that
you can read in half an hour. It is essentially intended for classroom
teachers, but parents tell me that they find it useful too. It tells
you exactly how to begin a class for the first time in the RA-AL! programme,
why it is the best way to teach, what to expect, and how to keep control
of the class and the work unobtrusively but enjoyably as they progress
in self-sufficiency.
View this text online.
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the MS Word version. Download
the Adobe .PDF version.
• The Religious Education and Philosophy Departments' Problem Social and Moral Implications of Mathematics Teaching
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