Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Mush on!


Even with the barrage of snow hitting Taos, we still have school and tutoring! We had a 2 hour delay on Monday, though it was not snowing that morning, and all drove our cars at snails pace this morning in the flurries. We UNM Students and staff aren't afraid of the snow!

Drive safe, everyone, but keep on coming to tutoring!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Our First Workshop

CASA just hosted our first workshop of the semester!
The workshop was called Math Games.

The purpose of this workshop was to introduce some fun into students' math lives. One of the students said that doing math today was like "learning English without reading any stories." In the workshop, we did some activities that took mathematical thinking and put it into context of a story: Something applicable, something useful, something we can relate to, something fun.
Green Puzzle with Missing Piece Shining with White Light


We played Sudoku, some logic grid puzzles, and multiplication war. The entire workshop solved puzzles as a group and discussed how math games affect learning styles. We had fun trying to play multiplication war with

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Outreach!

Part of our duties here at CASA is to reach out to the students of UNM Taos to tell them about our services. You may be seeing us in your classes. Outreach usually involves us interrupting class to tell you about the wonders of our tutoring!

Childrens Hands Reach Toward the Blue Sky
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Not only do you get a break from the cold hard acadamia, you also get free bookmarks and possibly pencils!