{"id":208330,"date":"2024-02-26T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/?p=208330"},"modified":"2024-02-26T09:14:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:14:59","slug":"tricks-are-not-for-kids-or-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/2024\/02\/26\/tricks-are-not-for-kids-or-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricks are not for kids or college students!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holly, and her fellow students, found their previous thinking of finding quick and easy tricks of solving problems reverted in <a href=\"\/~dinapolij\">Dr. DiNapoli&#8217;s<\/a> class. He encouraged them to take the extra efforts to answer the WHY aspect of each problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through this I realized so much more meaning and purpose behind each problem giving me that &#8220;aha moment&#8221; when reviewing elementary math which I hope to pass on to young children as a future teacher.<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Holly Thornburg<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Thornburg, a Family Science and Human Development major, discusses the value of finding the WHY in math problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":208331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-experiences","category-students-and-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208332,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208330\/revisions\/208332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}