{"id":7978,"date":"2023-03-30T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:43:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T20:43:42","slug":"mind-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/30\/mind-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-3673-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-3673.jpg?resize=474%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-3673-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-3673-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-3673-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-3673-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-3673-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-3673-scaled.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-3673-scaled.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cI haven\u2019t finished it yet, but it\u2019s like my mind is connected to the bead bars. I Just know what\u2019s going to come next.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Oliver&#8217;s wonderful Kindergarten teacher, Molly, sent us this picture and quote. The &#8220;bead bars&#8221; represent numbers (by the number of color-coded beads on each bar) and can be used to explore a lot of mathematical operations (including addition and multiplication).  It&#8217;s amazing to see how these manipulatives give kids real confidence around number manipulation. Oliver regularly stops me from solving math problems  so that he can do them himself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver&#8217;s wonderful Kindergarten teacher, Molly, sent us this picture and quote. The &#8220;bead bars&#8221; represent numbers (by the number of color-coded beads on each bar) and can be used to explore a lot of mathematical operations (including addition and multiplication). It&#8217;s amazing to see how these manipulatives give kids real confidence around number manipulation. Oliver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/30\/mind-powers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mind Powers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,5],"tags":[88,97,65],"class_list":["post-7978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oliver","category-teaching","tag-oliver","tag-oliver-says","tag-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7980,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}