LAST CHANCE 2016 PASSWORD SALE

Start off the new year right with a nifty new PASSWORD at a great price. 7 day sale starts NOW. (14Jan2016) Some of you need to quit using shared passwords you didn't pay for and come clean.  NOTE: many of the the links below have FREE videos that show you how to teach math, and samples of what you will find behind the paywalls. People find these quite valuable too.  Even if you don't buy anything: learn some math while your here.

Sale Price: $225.00 Reg price: $249.00
2016 price: $350.00

You save almost enough to by a combo kit combo. But for sure enough to get a set of blocks. People often buy blocks but have no idea how to best use them. Indeed, entire companies have been set up that fail to give you the training and info you need to best use your base ten blocks.

Training in San Diego.

This is your last chance to get them before prices go up again. Also a last chance to get "live" video training for 1/2 off. I will be doing monthly webinars for just 100 bucks for 4 to 5 hours of training. Questions get answered, discoveries are made, problems solved and parents and teachers emerge with a whole new attitude toward math and math fun. Take a moment and check out these testimonials I've collected...lol...and this isn't even all of them. Here are a bunch more.  

YOU can have results like that too; change your children's math life forever and avoid MANY problems that are coming in the very near future if you keep doing math the "traditional" way by getting started NOW. The longer you wait the worse it gets...some of you may already be here now and you will find it is much easier to avoid problems than to fix them.


The GETTING STARTED PAGE is a 5 dollar value all by itself. Many people have found it useful to go to that page and use it as a starting point. Make sure to check out the FREE PDF's on that page too. You will find lots of FREE vids chock full of valuable useful information on many of the page links you find here.

"If you get all of this for free I can't image what you get for money." ~Amazed Math Mom.

Passwords

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If all else fails use this link:
https://www.paypal.me/CrewtonRamone

Four Passwords.  Note: there are free lessons and videos you will find useful on almost all of the "entry" pages for the password protected pages below.  Just click the links below for short FREE lessons



Lifetime Passwords are just that...you get a pass for a lifetime. Pay once and you are good, forever. Come back as often as you like. Watch vids, download PDFs. You get all my passwords to get through all my pay walls all for one low price...currently that takes 4 passwords. When you purchase the LIFETIME you get it all.

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Sitewide. 

Sitewide: this is the password that gets you the most bang for the buck. It's the password that gets you into the most pages. It gets you into all of these pages (and more):

Advanced Algebra:  This page show how to do negative expressions and integers as well as graphing polynomials, some story problems and more. Shows little kids doing "advanced" math. The point is not that they are geniuses the point is if they can do it you can do it and learn how o show your kids too.  There is NO PLACE else you will find 5 and 6 year olds factoring problems like x² - x - 6 or 8 year olds factoring third and fourth power polynomials and HAVING FUN DOING IT.  They ask for it. http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/homeschool-math-advanced-algebra-entry-page.html 

Percentages:This page is great because it makes percentages so easy. Problems like 12 is what percent of 40?  Or 49 is 70% of what number? Are super easy once you can see what you are doing. This page is priceless because the knowledge you find on it is contained nowhere else on the internet that I've seen. http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/Percentages-With-Base-Ten-Blocks-Entry.html 

Problem Solving. This page makes problem solving child's play; also introduces systems of equations using "Ten Apples Up On Top".  Problems like  3x - 2 =  2x + 5 are explained in detail.
http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/PPPS-Entry.html 

Sample Lessons: This page alone is worth the whole price. Not just theory but theory in practice you get to see me "do it," unrehearsed on the fly with real live students of all ages and abilities. As one little girl recently said, "it's WAY more fun when you are doing it, than just watching videos." This is why we say math is NOT a spectator sport. http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/Sample-Lessons-Entry.html

Sample Lessons with Sarah: Speaking of theory in practice, here is a page of vids with me working with an autistic girl. You see some of the actual lessons that got her to pass her GED and ACT Compass test. We should be very thankful to Sarah and her mom for giving me permission to use these. "Maybe another autistic  person like me will see it and they will know math is easy too because they saw me. Yeah?" I have been told this is an invaluable resource because it shows how to break concepts down so simply that her autism isn't a barrier and at times can actually be an advantage. http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/Sarahs-Entry-Page.html

DBoyz playing with math. Example isn't a way to teach. It's THE ONLY way to teach. At Crewton Ramone's House of Math I don't show you how theory...I show you how.  You too can tailor lessons for you kids that make learning math fun easy and personalized for your child. http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/Dboyz-Entry-Page.html

Raymond's Page. More sample lessons with another student. This a bright young student. By now it should start to ecome clear the concepts are the same and so are some of the lessons...the more you see theory in practice the easier it will be to practice the theory with you own students and get stellar results. http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/Raymonds-Entry-Page.html

Emma's Page:  This child was labeled, they wanted to introduce drugs. As Far as I could tell she was a normal child who was just bored to tears in school. http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/Emma.html


Functions & Relationships This is a pdf of one of the old out of print Series A manuals. Clears up a lot of issues students have with pre-calculus concepts and shows you how to do some basic water tank and constant rate problems with a half hour video. Again, nobody is showing you how to do this kind of math with the ten and under crowd. NOBODY.  http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/Series-A-Manual-Functions-And-Relationships.html

This is NOT a complete list, explore and discover--find a couple of Easter Eggs for yourself. When in doubt use your sitewide password. If it doesn't work, email me for the new one but make sure you aren't on one of the three pages below first. Side note: there are Free videos and training which you will find valuable on all of these pages.

SCREECASTS: Here are two pages many people overlook. One has over 70 FREE screencasts and the Password Protected Screencast Page on has another 23 vids which equates to more than 4 hours more training via screencast. All are short video lessons, usually less than 10 minutes long, (none of them more than 15 minutes long) so you can do it in bite size pieces. http://screencast-o-matic.com/channels/cXV10bV2S

TEST PAGE: Here is a test page to see if you have the right password:
http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/password-test.html

This Trig page ALONE is worth the entire cost of a lifetime password...I have heard that many times now. Getting people to comment and write testimonials is like pulling teeth.  The fact that I have so many in and of itself should be a clue to some of you. Please go back and leave comments good bad or indifferent on these pages so people can see it's not just me. 
http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/trigonometry-with-base-ten-blocks-entry.html

I have another Trig page, "How to teach trig to eight year olds" that has gotten quite a few hits that you can buy by itself if you want, but it is included when you buy a Lifetime Pass. See below.

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Parent Teacher Training.

Parent Teacher Training: This Password alone is worth the price all by itself. You get hours of video training along with Pdfs to go with. This year I will be adding transcripts of these trainings too. As people who got in back when there was just one password for 100 bucks have found, once you get a Lifetime Pass the benefits keep coming. If you want results like the ones you see in the screenshots of comments you see peppered throughout this blog, then you may also want to come to a "live" video training or two.  The Teacher training page is made up of videos taken directly from some of those trainings along with links to more pages and video and supporting pdfs that you can download.  Also for those that have been through the training and are on facebook please go put some comments HERE.

You can also purchase ANNUAL passes for JUST the Sitewide or JUST the Parent Teacher Training, or both.  ANNUAL passes are good for one year only.  I have found that quite a few people convert from annual to lifetime...and NO, you don't get credit toward the Lifetime if you already bought an annual.

Bonus Pages: 

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EZ PZ OVERVIEW 

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HOW TO TEACH TRIG TO AN EIGHT YEAR OLD

As an added Bonus to those who get lifetime passes I have so far made TWO BONUS pages.  The EZ PZ overview that comes with what looks like a complicated flow chart, but actually it's EZPZ lemon squeezee, hence the name and the Trig to Eight Year Olds Page which helps make trig child's play...because math is child's play.  Even trig.

 The EZ PZ Page goes along with the P/T training and gives you an Bird's Eye overview of how the method works and what to be doing with your students and children. It also gives you an idea of when to introduce what and ideas on how to make learning 45 addends and 400 math facts as painless as possible...in fact move from painless to FUN.

The Trig To Eight year old page breaks down basic trig functions like SIN, COS and TAN and make them concrete and understandable. Finding angles and sides is easy when you can get you hands on it and understand what the words mean and what the questions are asking. Actual lessons show you how to show your kids (or yourself) how easy trig can be.

Training

Training will be monthly (there may be some special sessions in between the monthly sessions). Cost is 100 bucks a session which works out around 20 to 25 bucks an hour. Training woks like this. Simple.  I usually charge 50 bucks an hour, and people think it's worth it. For an idea of what happens during training click HERE,  During the sale you can purchase tutoring or training with the button below.

Crewton Ramone In Action.

You are getting HALF OFF for the training.

And if you buy more you get one or two free passes. Usually I only offer 2 free classes if you spend 400 bucks but I threw one in free starting at 250 bucks...for those of you that want tutoring this means you don't have to cough up 400 bucks at once to get a free class...after the sale it's back to 400.

Basically if you buy 8 classes the rate is 40 bucks an hour instead of 50.
If you buy 5 classes the rate is $41.67 instead of 50 because I'm throwing in one in for free at the lower price point for this sale only.

People have found the training to be very worthwhile.  It's not the same as in person but vid training is definitely the next best thing to being there.

sale is over

If all else fails use this link:
https://www.paypal.me/CrewtonRamone

 

Tutoring

It's basically the same thing but one is for PARENT TEACHER TRAINING and this one if for tutoring you could just as easily use the button above or this one:

Tutoring Passes

One Pass $50.00 USD Two Passes $100.00 USD Three Passes $150.00 USD Four Passes $200.00 USD Five Passes 1 FREE. $250.00 USD Six Passes 1 FREE. $300.00 USD Seven Passes 1 FREE. $350.00 USD Eight Passes 2 FREE $400.00 USD

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If all else fails use this link:
https://www.paypal.me/CrewtonRamone

My tutoring is effective. My F to A stories are manifold.  Many of my students don't just get A's the get 100%'s because once you understand the concepts computation is EZ. No really. See for yourself.



If you have used my password pages leave a comment below:

Playing Trig With Young Students.

This looks like a mess because what you see here is a the end of a Trig lesson but it started off with just the triangle the jet and the numbers that you see in blue the 36 degrees and the 7,000. But as we talked about it and all the different ways we could go about solving for the numbers we didn't know more and more got written down so it looks complicated. It isn't. Once concepts are understood students generally go from F to A in short order. Here is a page on trig showing one such student.

What you see are actually THREE ways to go about finding answers, using Sin, Cos and Tan depending on the angle you use what function you use to give you the side you are trying to find. 

Trigonometry is just playing with triangles
 instead of rectangles.

In fact trig is so easy that I built a page with lessons on it designed to show you how to teach trig to eight year-olds.   Yes you read that correctly. Eight. Years. Old.

In this video they are  doing trigonometry and having FUN doing it.   Here is a video showing a lesson with two students...who don't know this is supposed to be hard and that quite few students twice their age fail this pretty regularly in high schools and colleges around the nation.  If you are intimidated or lost then maybe you need to take a few steps back and check some of my other pages, but the point is any kid can do this even a grown up kid like you...and I show you how starting from step one. Here you see us AFTER we've been playing for a while because I want to show you what's possible.



Once we've played for a while and have gotten comfortable with the concepts and know when to divide and when to multiply and what function to use and the definitions of those functions the math itself is pretty easy, especially if we employ a calculator, but--and this is rather important, it's crucial to have enough "number sense" and understanding to know whether the number you got after you punched your calculator makes sense and isn't ridiculous. Sometimes you hit the wrong key...sometimes to divide when you are supposed to be multiplying and sometimes you may set the problem up incorrectly...so using a rectangle to clarify your thought at first can be quite useful.

These students are past that point. But I drew it in so you can see it applied to these problems. The students in the video already have played enough with these concepts so that these rectangles are understood. Algebra and trigonometry go hand in hand because algebra is man's greatest labor saving device. Coupled with multiplication math becomes easy to understand and learn because we aren't bogged down in computation or slowed down by basic problem solving. This way we can focus on CONCEPTS, and trigonometry becomes child's play.

Then we can ask very simple questions like how fast in the UFO flying in miles per hour and what is it's ground speed in miles per hour starting with just this much information:

A UFO takes 5 seconds to reach a height of 1 mile taking off at a 58 degree angle in a straight line. How fast is the UFO going and what is it's ground speed?

Remember I gave this problem to an eight year old. Now I will grant you that this is a "gifted" eight year old but I've taught this to other not so gifted eight year olds also, just takes a little longer which means we have to play more. So take a moment and do the math...if an eight year old can do it so can you or your teens.  But start at the beginning...it has taken us multiple lessons to get this far...this didn't happen on day one.   The same way they won't be speaking in Spanish sentences after a lesson or two in Spanish.


GET How To Teach Trig To An Eight Year Old
For a measly forty bucks I can teach you how to teach (just about) any "regular non-gifted" eight year old to do this too. No tears. No fear. Just fooling with math. If you actually buy a LIFETIME password you will find the trig page alone is pretty much worth the price of the password. Seriously.

And with a lifetime pass you not only get "How To Teach Trig To An Eight Year Old" you also get The Trig Page and a bunch of other pages that make teaching and learning math EZ too.  How To Teach Trig To An Eight Year Olds is a "stand alone page" that comes with some added bonuses that you get with a full blown password and it also comes with some pdfs to get you going. So if you Don't have 350.00 bucks for a password or want to pay 37 bucks a month for 10 months and just want help with Trig just pay 40 bucks once and you are into that page for life.  No expiration. And I think you will see that for 40 bucks you get a whole lot more than you are used to getting for 40 bucks.

What I have found over the years is that a lot of kids that come to me for trig help don't know basic algebra concepts and don't even have their multiplication tables down pat.  Of course they are having trouble with Trigonometry and are confused. Couple with that with text books and their proclivity for starting in the middles and expecting you to have some serious perquisites under your belt and you end up with a lot of anxiety confusing and failing grades. You need to be able to identify a rectangle count to nine and tell if something is same or different or not to get started with me.

There is no need for fear or failing grades. Forty bucks will make all the difference. Don't believe me though, no brochure makes the hotel look bad.   Go read what some other people have got to say. Skip Starbucks 8 times and you can change your kid's life forever.

Click on the links to the trig pages and you will find FREE lessons there.

Algebra with Base Ten Blocks For A 6 Year Old.

 Your kids could be doing this.  Just get a password. 
 
From an email I got:

 "Made much more "math" sense since I had paid $50 for the 2 previous years. 

 And when you announced that your price was going up for the lifetime membership, it was an easy decision. Thanks for doing what you do. My 6 year old is now working on division since yesterday and it was so easy for him. We worked on division facts from 100 down and he only missed a handful. Not bad for his first day. But of course, working on multiplication for the last 6 months made it a whole lot easier. 

When we were done, he said "division is not that hard, why do they wait to teach it in 4th grade?" (He has a fourth grade cousin.)

I'm sending you a link of me and my son factoring Tri-nomials if you get a chance to glance at it. Nothing grand, especially since you have seen it thousands of times with other 6 year olds.



"I am really appreciating your website and all those YouTube videos. I needed to get a firm grasp on so many concepts and how they are related, never mind how to then go about teaching it. I feel that this is the first real opportunity for me to actually really understand what I was taught all those years ago. All that 'stuff' that I had no idea what they were talking about, clueless as to the why too, and so also promptly forgot pretty much everything.

Thank you for all your time, energy and effort!
Sincerely,

JP, UK"

Well I have good news and I have bad news. The good news.

Sale will be happening on Friday 27 Nov 2015.

Lots of Items on sale.

I will have passwords on sale. I will have gift certificates for training on sale. I will include a training with some kits...and of course 10 pay options.

Now the bad news: prices are going up...just a few bucks here and there; but pretty much all plastic is going up...like a DCSK will be $551.25 instead of $525.00 mostly reflecting shipping costs.

Combo kits will be 95 bucks instead of 88.75...etc...but during the sale they will be less...and as you notice we haven't had a sale since June and depending on how this one goes it will be quite a while until the next one...whether this goes well or not.

Might want to tell your friends to get on it NOW.

Base Ten Block Sample Lesson.

Math is fun when you use base ten blocks. Here is a young girl who isn't so very keen on math, she'd rather be playing with her bows and across or her sword but playing with nines and building walls can be fun too.   Measuring out how many nines in 27 turn out to be pretty easy.

Building walls of 24 can also be fun...here she sees quite clearly four sixes and six fours are the same also three eights and eight threes....and of course we counted by 3's, 4's, 6's and 8's...and we see counting by eights is the fastest...no need for worksheets. No muss no fuss. We talk about it she hears it she sees it.

She gets a math experience using base ten blocks that evolves more than just paper and pencil and memorization. She can get her hands on it.  She is in a math rich environment.   Everything we do is math during this lesson and counting.  Here we are doing multiplication and division and skip counting. It's visually obvious that the bigger the number is the fewer we need to count to 24...we see a relationship between numbers. Six 4's is the same four 6's...which is pretty cool when you are six.  But lets not get stuck doing the same thing over and over again...let's do something else.

Remove the no from the lesson.

So lets make some puzzles.  Build me x² + 7x + 12...and then count the sides...basically here the algebra is just along for the ride mostly we are cementing in the addends and doing some multiplication facts. Then we also see x² + 8x + 16 is (x+4)² which is just a shorter way to write (x+4)(x+4)...this also gives us a better understanding of just plain ol' x²...

10 to 15 Minutes per Topic.

Factoring is fun and easy. And it builds confidence because every kids knows algebra is supposed to be hard. So if they can do it with ease they must be just as smart as grandma says they are.

That moment when you see the answer.

 Keeping it small and easy makes it fun but there is plenty of math going on here none the less. Dividing by two, squaring a number, addends, multiplication she gets exposed to all of it in one simple problem.  If you put the child in a situation where they can not fail and feel like they are making their own discoveries rather than you just telling them math facts and practicing with drills and memorization you will find lower stress and more fun which leads to more learning and happy memories and associations.   Or you can bust out your work sheets.., and see how much fun that isn't.

It is a very simple concept, the making of positive associations with the mathematics instead of negatives ones. It should be pretty clear from the pictures that she is having a good time.  If you have doubts listen to her excitement in the video.

Once you get the thing factored counting is the easy part. While she is building it fine motor skills are being developed. Also recognition of spatial relationships...

Algebra is fun and easy.

Factoring Polynomials is Child's play.

Here is a picture that's fun because we are seeing quite clearly that 3 sixes and six 3's is the same thing. We made a purple sponge cake with pink frosting and as we frosted the cake we counted by threes.  We put them on top of each other and counted the sides...

Multiplication doesn't have to be drudgery, if you do it right the child see's that actually it's a time saver and learning to multiply makes life easier not harder because it allows us to count quickly which allows us to do more math with less pain. Discovering constancy of numbers is fun when you are six.

It's these little repeated exposures using base ten blocks that over time add up to a deeper understanding of how math fits together.

So here is a sample for you, showing us "jumping around" from topic to topic. The topic is math. so we are just playing math...we start off counting 11's...and then fool around with multiplication concepts...then we solved for x playing what's under the cup, told some stories...did some thinking...then we factored some polynomials and we were done...moved along in lively fashion didn't get bored doing the same thing over and over again even though we were doing the same thing over and over again...which is math...

Not just Theory.  Theory in Practice.  
I have HUNDREDS of FREE videos that show you how.

I don't want to tutor your kids I want you to tutor your kids. Play math and have fun. Spend quality time with your kids and learn together. This method will transform your math time into something your kids look forward to instead of dread. But don't take my word for it, here are testimonials, you can see many others have found that this is a better way to go. All you have to do is dive in.  Christmas is coming and it will be a great time to get some blocks and GET STARTED.  Get a set of blocks and a password and you are good to go.

Base Ten Block Comments And Testimonials.

  Well this was pleasant. You can find it here not on my testimonials page. It would be nice if a few more of you put up some comments/testimonials. Because of course I think Crewton Ramone's House Of Math great but who cares what I think, lol! People want to hear from YOU. People who have used it, paid money for passwords and blocks have some experience. Of course they are skeptical. They should be. Math has always been a mystery and hard and their own experience tells them math is anything BUT fun.

I'm here to show that some of those decisions you made as a teen or pre-teen regarding math may need to be reevaluated with some new information. Here are a few people that have discovered the difference base ten blocks coupled with a good methodology can make...

I find math kits and books that are squeaky clean never been used...which is sad because the blocks properly employed are powerful tools AND they are FUN. They make learning math fun and easy. Learning through play is a natural thing for little kids. Many parents have forgotten how to have fun and play, even less when it comes to math. But slowly but surely I am hearing more of these stories, which is pleasing. But again I am not the one who needs to hear these stories, OTHERS do. I've known this for more than two decades.

But up until quite recently there was no one showing people not just the HOW but the WHY. And more than, that not just the theory, but theory in practice via video and screencasts that you can watch as many times as you want. I also do training that as you can see from people's comments quite literally  BLOW THEIR MINDS. Because it is my hallucination is that math is EASY and fun and I often end up getting groups of people to hallucinate with me.

Also you may want to tell people NOW as opposed to later because now prices are low and later prices will be going UP.  Some of you may remember just a few years ago when a lifetime passwas just $100.00. Believe it or not I have had some of those people send me money again when they see all the new stuff I add...

y= mx+b explained.

Part of the reason prices are going up is because people have the mentality that if prices are low it must not be worth anything. When I was selling passwords for a buck I could not make a sale. When I was selling them for 5 bucks I got a few more. When I started selling them for 150 bucks suddenly I was selling lots of them. This is ridiculous to me but my marketing people and a in addition to them, a billionaire explained it to me in no uncertain terms. Perceived value. Fine.

However, YOU can add to that perceived value by commenting,  "liking" other comments and posting your experiences on social media. But either way apparently if it's not $500+ it must not be worth anything as a math curriculum.

So very shortly prices will go up. They are telling me to raise prices as is. Anybody that has been here for a while knows every time I raise prices I give you even more stuff on password protected pages and more "content" in general. Those who were clever enough to get a lifetime way back when they were $100.00 have written to thank me more than once and occasionally send me money too. Which is really really really appreciated. Most people even at $249.00 are AMAZED at how much bang they get for their buck...and I'm only just getting started.

YOU are the most powerful force. People don't come because of me exactly; they come because of you. So your continued support via comments, shares likes etc is much appreciated and indeed needed for growth. And the more it grows the more pages and content I put up. I promise I will never rest on my laurels. Too much math to do.

I have to walk a fine line because I want to compensate people for spreading the word but at the same time paid testimonials are not worth as much as "organic" ones. So I am looking at an affiliate program where if they pay for a course because you recommended them you will get compensated. It will be non different from you telling them about a good movie except when they go see it you get a small portion of the ticket price....and my movies teach them math or how to have fun teaching math. So everybody wins.

People have found that the more money and customers I make and get, the more content they get.  I am also still selling combo kits that as I have said have barely been used if at all but mine come with passwords and training...my reasoning is simple. The reason they are so pristine is because they never got used. They never got used because mom and dad didn't know how to use them or how powerful (and fun) they could be. So if you get a kit from me you don't just get a kit you get passwords and some VIDEO TRAINING.  By the way IN PERSON training is happening in Dec. DETAILS HERE. For these crazy super mondo deals go here.

Just think, just by sharing you experience you might inspire others to share theirs, which might in turn help a child or entire family avoid a lifetime of fear and frustration with mathematics, just because they decided they might give it a try.  Or maybe they are on the fence and yours is the comment that resonates and pushes them over. Thanks to all the people the give spontaneous testimonials via email and FB.

Here are a few pages that could use comments from YOU. Thanks to people like Anna and Kirk and Lisa and many others who post comments on a semi-regular basis.  Here is your chance to join them.

http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/homeschool-math-Subtraction-book.html

http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/How-To-Teach-Trig-To-An-Eight-Year-Old.html

http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/parents-teachers.html

Note that doesn't say "school," it says "district."

I will put more comments boxes on more pages in the future. If you can't make a comment because you are shy or whatever then please put a like on some body else's so people can see it's not just four guys in a room pretending.

People who actually use this get results, and as you can see, they get GREAT results. Shasta could use more training but even without it she is getting test scores well ahead of her peers. Shasta is a motivated young teacher...and she has found that these blocks combined with my methodology make for a winning combination.  If you use the methods I have outlined in these blog posts and on my website you will find that you have great successes too.

Thanks for your support.

If you want to leave a comment here feel free:

House For A Duck.

Playing math often means learning math without really knowing you are learning math....when you are four or five. In this case we learned a lot of math, addends specifically, without worksheets without pencil, pens or paper. We just built a house for a duck and as an added bonus got a few more repetitions for these addends added to the long term memory. It takes many repetitions starting at an early age to get math facts (or any facts) into "the long term memory" and available for instant recall, but as you will see it's easier when they are younger and here is WHY.

Where most of you err particularly with multiplication is you try to cram the number of repetitions into a short time frame usually well after the brain is out of the "download mode". This can be effective but it has been my experience that this can also cause a host of problems particularly when it comes to math anxiety and attitude toward math in general. Instead of a fun and exciting language that underlies ALL of science and explains the universe around them via the physics and chemistry and biology it becomes drudgery and something that requires a lot of mental effort to memorize a host of math facts that don't seem to go together.

Using base Ten Blocks to Make A House For A Duck, You can also see a math bag in the background because we played what's under the cup too. We had fun while learning basic addends less than 10.

What you want to do is make positive associations with mathematics and avoid having to pound math facts into your children. This is what happens when you wait until they are past the age of 7 or 8 to teach them math. The very basics, 45 addends and 400 multiplication facts are learned easily before the age of 7; it is much harder after this age because the brain state has changed.

If you want to be an effective teacher you need to understand a little about how the brain works and how to put information in it. I will have more on this later but the basic is this:

When the child is naturally in "theta", they are basically in download mode. Learning anything is easier for ANYone while in theta, there is an entire industry dedicated to selling audio technology that puts the brain into these states for "super learning"...being happy and unstressed adds to this ability to learn easily. I cover this in Parent/Teacher training.

Removing "the NO" from the lesson is important because "NO" is a charged word that has all manner of negative associations attached to it even by the age of 5. Just hearing "no" is enough to make some children mad or sad or angry which activates the reptilian brain (cerebellum) which shuts down the prefrontal cortex which activates the fight or flight response where blood is pushed into the limbs NOT into the part of the brain that facilitates learning or higher order thinking.

By age six or seven "downloading" is no longer the default setting as it were and they begin spending more time in alpha and then by age 12 beta (and with training Gamma, a state not shown here and a state associated with "miracles" and the "paranormal" and other psychic abilities not easily explainable by modern science but which can be achieved with "practice.").  Logically the best time to teach a large amount of factual information is in the early years when it is easy down loaded or assimilated. The names of states and their capitols, Presidents, the ABC's and of course math facts like 7x8 and 17 squared are easily learned and stored in the subconscious for easy recall at earlier ages.  And if you make a game of it and make it fun, the learning is easier still.  Play math. Not worksheets.

At Crewton Ramone's House of Math as with Mortensen and Montessori, we emphasize whole brain activities...using both hands for example is VERY important, but can you also see that involving the other sensory cortexes would make learning easier? This is because we use more of the brain. This has been borne out by research at major universities.

This seems obvious to those of us that use manipulatives to teach math but quite a few others are only just now discovering that the more senses you involve the easier learning is.

WHEN you teach is also an important factor...as the child gets older more repetition is required to put information into the sub-conscious mind to be made available for instant recall.   In other words the older the child is the harder it will be to memorize multiplication tables...learn a new language or most any subject.  This does not; however, mean it can't be done. Obviously, it just means it will be harder,  take longer, and often involves a lot of tears and frustration.

Any student properly motivated and who is relaxed and happy can learn math at any age. I have proven this repeatedly for over 25 years with students of all ages including adults. But it is FAR easier if you get them young because by the time they are teens many factors are working against you, brainstate being primary among them but as you know, attitude and motivation may be lacking by the time they reach their teen age years, plus there is the added conditioning of past failures and the thought that math is hard instead of something easy and fun.

Here is theory in action. He sees the math facts. He hears the math facts. He experiences the math facts. He has fun. I should have put the camera on him when he told his parents he was done because you could see the satisfaction and pride in the smile on his face. Such a simple thing building a house for a duck, but terribly important for you to understand that through play we learn math, sans tears or fears and without "robbing them of their childhood", but instead making life far easier for him and others like him down the road.




Once (while) addends are mastered, multiplication which is just repetitive addition also becomes easy and we lessen the chance of losing them to multiplication tables and the stupidity that is the way we currently try to force feed students math at a late age.

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Live Training In San Diego.

Stay tuned for more details and come back and check on this post as I get more info for you. We have special opportunity to do get together for a live training because we have a host who is willing to cover many of the costs and logistics for a meeting room and travel for me.


Who?: Crewton Ramone.

What?: Intermediate Parent Teacher Training

Although Nubes and beginners are welcome, try and have gone through the material on the parent teacher training page and try and make a training between now and then if possible.

Where?:

San Diego

Southwestern Yacht Club.

Meeting room holds 75, so accommodating you will be no problem.




When?:

So on Dec 4th, 5th and 6th I will giving a live Playshop/Training.

Travel day.

Friday:

2pm to 6pm: Welcome and introduction.

7-10pm :Basic Operations with combo kit and time permitting basic ops kit.

Saturday:

9am to 6pm Hour lunch. Training +  Q & A

Mixer/BBQ

Travel day

Sunday:

8 to about noon. This session is sually left up to the attendees to decide what they want to cover in that time now that they have some experience under their belt.

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This way you only have to spend two nights in a hotel. Which should run around 150 or less per night. If you guys coordinate you can cut that cost in half. The Best Western is basically walking distance to the Yacht Club..

Cost:

$350 pre-pay "early bird special" This is per couple as in married couple if you have a well behaved child or children in your family they may also attend under this price. Two people who are not related from different states are not covered. This is for husband and wives significant other etc. Not two teachers trying to cut costs. Save that for you hotel.
$400 if payment for live training occurs after Nov 15th
$500 for late decision payment after Thanksgiving, however participant receives a lifetime password (Cost of which is scheduled to jump greatly.) If you already have a lifetime password you should have payed earlier...lol...

CHECKS made payable to Ben H Rogers sent to my address (see my website just scroll down) are the preferred method of payment if I need to make paypal button let me know, but I prefer a check in this case.

From Alex our event coordinator:
"So, I have organized for CR free lodging and a free waterfront conference space so these normally incorporated costs are a non-issue for this event. I will be hosting a Saturday evening BBQ-mixer on the waterfront so we will have a better chance to get to know one another and chat with CR. Normally we have beautiful weather in December.

I hope this helps in your decision making process. Please contact me privately if I can help to facilitate your participation since I know the area. I can help to arrange lodging or offer suggestions.

Also she has offered to pick people up from the airport if need be and had opened her house to several people if they wanted a place to stay. Those I have been told are already taken but there are MANY inexpensive places to stay nearby. Contact Alex to coordinate and facilitate this.In order to contact her contact me because webcrawlers will pick up an email address off this blog and then she will get endless spam. So contact here, Or on FB.

This is a great opportunity to get live training and questions answered on inexpensively. The last training I did was $500.00 for the early birds and you had to get to CDA Idaho which required renting a car in addition to catching a plane to Spokane. Sand Diego international is right there. We'll pick you up.

Also the Saturday night BBQ/mixer is included in the price. Although I'm pretty sure it's BYOB.  lol

At the moment we have 4 people confirmed...so it is ON. I don't expect many people so it will be "cozy" and you should be able to get questions and answers...unlike some training where there are 200 people and it was very easy to get lost in the crowd. There may or not be another one of these in 2016 I was not expecting to do live events again until 2017...so "I'll catch the next one" may be awhile before the next one.

Bring you kits and materials questions and a happy attitude and get ready to play.  I will also have a few combo kits I got off Ebay/Craigslist etc that are pretty much like brand new for sale at the event if you want one. $70.00...

The Best Western Plus Island Palms Hotel & Marina costs about 150 a night after fees and taxes etc and is walking distance. The idea being you don't need to rent a car unless you WANT to.

FALL SALE

Him who is already 8 is already 9.  In Honor of his birthday and the Fall Solstice and the fact that I spent way too much money on vacation in Chicago...here is a

SUPER DUPER MONDO INCREDULO SALEIS OVER.

After this prices are going up a little. Right now Lifetime Passwords are regularly $249.00, They are about to be $349.00. Just for the passwords. Right now, for a little less than that price I'm going to make you a crazy deal. I have 3 very slightly used (and I do mean very slightly used) combo kits.  So the next 3 people that order will get:

250.00 Lifetime Pass.
  88.75 A Combo Kit.  Caveat: they have hollow hundreds and x²'s...that was a lamebrained short lived idea...they also have some regular ones but they have the nice underlays...
  21.55 Shipped either the same day or the next day via USP Priority Mail..
  50.00 2 P/T "Live" Video Trainings.
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MORE THAN $349.00

These deals last as long as I have kits so it might be a one day sale or a two week sale depends on how long it takes to sell the kits. If I get a rush and somehow sell more than the original kits I had procured Mortco will fill those orders and I have NO IDEA how long it will take them to get you a kit. They say 6 to 8 weeks. If you are lucky. And the moon is in the right place, and the stars are in proper alignment. If you are one of the first 10 you will have it in a week...or less.

The first 9 will not have this problem.

 If you just want a password because you already have blocks I will sell you just the LIFETIME password and throw in ONE P/T Training. All you need is a google account so you can vid chat. Trainings are on Fridays and some times Saturdays usually around 8am HST. Currently this is a $25 dollar value...but that is an introductory price.  These trainings usually last 3 to 4 hours...so even at $25.00 an hour they are worth around $100.00...and soon that will the cost...and look for Lifetime passes to move to $500.00 in 2016 and 'a la cart' pages will 1/2 price, not included for free. My marketing people are going nuts--so there is the compromise. Meantime early adopters are grandfathered in as it were...those that come in after December 31st will wish they were you.


Despite what Jaimie "I ought to be in jail" Dimon says, I know times are tough for a lot of you so I have crazy deals for people that need to make 10 payments. You can get a sitewide or a P/T separately for just 5 bucks. But that's all you get. One password. Either one for training or one for most of the rest of the site**. But you are IN for a year...

For a few dollars more get them both and you are IN for a year and for just $22.00 (usually 26.00) you get a lifetime pass. That means you make ten payments and you're IN for life. Do the math.

+ PLUS you get these pages EZPZ Overview & How To Teach Trig To 8 Year Olds.
+ PLUS I'll even throw in ONE Friday vid training. All for just 22 smakeroos a month for 10 months. Move over crazy Eddie, Crazy Crewton is the new boss in town. Although there are no steak knives or bamboo steamers, there is coffee and doughnuts--just kidding: there's only math. But what else do you need?

Remember for 22 bucks you get a 3-4 hour training. No prerequisites other than the ability to count to 9, speak English and identify a rectangle....it would help immensity if you can tell same and different or not. These are skills you've had since you were five or before. So you'll be fine just jump in. After the sale: no training included but it's only $25.00.

**I now have two (soon to be more) 'A La Cart' Pages: EZPZ Overview & How To Teach Trig To 8 Year Olds. 

Concept based teaching. I show you how to get THEM to tell YOU
a² + b² = c, not just memorize formula, DISCOVER formula. 

I assure you you will more value out of these passwords than a couple of levels of books...

Here a few of the pages that make the password worth your money:

Parent Teacher Training alone is worth the money.

Sarah's Page.

"Advanced Algebra."

Trigonometry. This page alone is worth the price...you get to see a lesson that earned a student a perfect score on his trig test and a whole lot more.

Percentages. You will be hard pressed to find percentages presented this way with base ten blocks anywhere on the entire internet.

Sample Lessons.

There are more pages than this including Pages of PDF's and more...

In fact even if you don't get a password you could go to these pages and learn a thing or two for FREE. But get a password, prices will continue to go up...sale price used to 100, then 150 now it's 175, next it will be 200...and I am told by many from homeschoolers to marketing gurus that the regular price or $250.00 is severely undervalued...early adopters are rewarded...

Test your sitewide password HERE.

Trig For Little Kids

There is a FREE lesson on this page too:

How to teach trig to 8 year olds

to get you started

It's pretty easy once you understand some basic concepts. This short 5 minute video details what you get for your money. If you have already gotten a lifetime password this page is Gratis. Otherwise it's just $39.95.


The page contains several hours of video that will make trig into child's play. It also has several bonuses that make the page (more than) worth the 40 bucks you are going to pay...

You can pay 40 bucks and it will be more than worth it. Or you can get a "lifetime pass" and get passwords that get you into ALL my password protected pages AND the Parent Teacher training page. Use the button below. If you can't afford $250.00 all at once use the ten pay feature, And remember this page is FREE to those that already have lifetime passwords, but not to those that just have the P/T Training or Sitewide, or who just have annual password status.

Update:  These prices have changed.

Here is the one pay (choose $250.00):

use side bar

Here is the 10 pay (choose $26.00):

use side bar

Obviously, the only one that will get you the password to this page is the $26.00 Lifetime password. So when I say lifetime password I really mean 3 passwords. One for PT Training. One for ALL the other pages (Sitewide) and now one for How to teach Trig to 8 Year Olds. There will be more Al La Cart pages in the future but if you have a lifetime pass these come free with it...and as you can see eventually the price of the Lifetime pass is going to go UP.

If just want the password to this page buy it on the Entry Page and you are quite literally set for life. That 39.95 gets you into that page forever not just a week or month or year.  When the password changes, and it will, just email me for the new one.

Once you have you the correct password go:

HERE

Or direct to the page requiring your password here.

You get quite a bit of stuff for free, for example go to this page and get a some FREE simple trig lessons. You might also do a search for Crewton Ramone Trigonometry and see what comes back. And of course, if you don't think it was worth the money for the password ask for your money back.

Here is a photo set from the training...basically shots of the white board before I erased it and moved on. For an explanation of what you see here go to the page and watch the 40 minute screen cast...

Use these simple tools to make trig child's play.

Don't forget to check out the FREE lesson on this page:

How to teach trig to 8 year olds.

***Also be looking forward to a sale of sorts where you get a combo kit, a pass for two trainings AND, plus a lifetime password all for just 345.00. And because I will have the combo kits in hand you will get same day or one day PRIORITY shipping, so you will have the kit IN HAND in a week not 6 to 8 weeks. Stay tuned for that.

Another FREE Mirco LESSON:


You will see the reason for some of the vids on the password protected page once you see these little kids learning Trig...make math easy and do short lessons. Even this 15 minute lesson could be broken up. But I'm making videos to show you guys...note how I ask questions I don't just tell them facts to memorize. All this and more is covered in "How to teach trig to eight year olds." Note how I EXPECT hem to know and use basic concepts like square toot, divide a number by itself to get one, opposite addends, same and more...put it altogether with my help. 

Trig too much for you? Start with a FREE book on subtraction. Get Supremely Simple Subtraction here. If they can't do subtraction easily math isn't going to be any fun. Check the comments out on that page...people really like my free stuff I think you will find you'll get more than your money's worth when I ask you to pay for something. Get your FREE copy today.  Also go back up and hit like if you got some value out of this page whether to get "How To Teach Trig To Eight Year Olds" or not.

August 2015 Training.

Mooey the Moo Cow In the Burbs Of Chicago. Interstate 90.

Training on Friday 8AM HST and AGAIN on Sat 9AM HST. $25 @, $50 for two days, Aug 28th and 29th.

Check a time zone calculator for your local time. HST = Hawaiian Standard Time.

Watch FB for updates, but FB doesn't share or put updates on your timeline otherwise I wouldn't spend money in advertising so YOU have to go to my page and scroll a little if you want to stay informed. Last week nobody showed up because none of them saw the update until afterwards...

LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK:
Check these out before you go to a training, if you haven't already.


How do trainings work?

Basic Concepts & Principles.