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What do we do in math? Count. Concept #1: Mathematics is the science of numbers and all we can do with numbers is COUNT. Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting. ~Ernst Mach All math is, is counting. Every math problem counts something. Believe me I’ve had this debate in seminars with professors and teachers across the USA. If you aren’t counting something you aren’t doing mathematics. Period. So one of the most basic concepts I teach ANY student is to ask “what are we counting?” when they encounter a math problem.

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There are many kinds of base ten blocks that you can purchase, but base ten blocks are not all the same and some are much more powerful than others. First off, make sure they ARE base ten blocks, I have seen block sets where they are base seven and even base three…where seven of the x are same as an x^2 or just three y are the same as the y^2, while still quite workable doing the larger problems becomes somewhat difficult because it takes too long to count out the units. This is very much akin to getting lost in computation…many students lose track of the problem they are doing because even if they understand the concepts they can’t do the math or it takes them a long time to do the math and they forget what they were doing or trying to solve in the first place.

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Since 1990, I have taken on students of every skill level and age you can imagine, from 3 to 83, from those who could not yet count to those who just needed some brush up in preparation for calculus. A recurring theme among those students who are getting the poorest grades and that are saying they aren’t “getting it” is the inability to make tens (or nines).

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