FROM THE DESK OF DAVID BERG is a special blog that hosts an ongoing series of articles intended for Making Math Real's dedicated, long-term practitioners who have the coursework and experience necessary to understand the content of these writings. David Berg, E.T., is the creator of the Making Math Real Simultaneous Multisensory Structured Methods and Founder and Director of the Making Math Real Institute. He is an author, educational therapist, international lecturer, consultant, and professional development provider for universities, conferences, public and private schools, learning disabilities organizations, and SELPAs. During his 40 years in education, he has taught all grades from kindergarten through postgraduate and has worked nationwide with thousands of educators of all levels and students of all ages. In addition to being Founder, Director, and Creator of Making Math Real, David Berg is also an artist, musician, and composer.
Published on: October 18th, 2022
From the Desk of David Berg, E.T. | NEW COURSE CHANGE: The 9 Lines Intensive is Now a Prerequisite Course for the 4 Operations and Fractions Courses (and All the Higher Level Courses)
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Published on: September 20th, 2022
From the Desk of David Berg, E.T. | Spring Sneak Preview Edition: Announcing a brand new intensive Mini-Course coming this spring: Making Math Real: Mental Math
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Published on: August 16th, 2022
From the Desk of David Berg, E.T. | Special Back to School Edition: Math Means You Know That You Know, And If You Know, You Know Making Math Real is the Gold Standard of Math Education
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Published on: May 16th, 2022
From the Desk of David Berg, E.T. | Special Summer & Fall Edition: Completing the 9 Lines Class Before the Fractions Class:
The Highest Advantage for Maximizing Your Learning
Published on: May 9th, 2022
From the Desk of David Berg, E.T. | Special Summer Edition: These are still extremely uncertain times. Since the onset of the COVID 19 Pandemic in 2020, Making Math Real, in the effort to keep providing our series of courses, has shifted from in-person classes to a distance learning format via Zoom; and now, in May 2022, we still have no stable understanding of the ongoing impact of the pandemic, as recently there has been a significant increase in new cases of COVID.
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Published on: April 19th, 2022
Looking Forward to the Next 25 Years, Part 7: NEW 9 Lines In-Service. The 9 Lines Multiplication Fact Acquisition and Application Strategy is the most internationally renown of all the Making Math Real Simultaneous Multisensory Structured Methodologies K-12.
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Published on: February 8th, 2022
25th Anniversary Special: WARNING! How to find a reputable MMR practitioner. As Making Math Real continues to increase its reputation and renown, so, too, are the increases in fraudulent misrepresentations of spurious “MMR practitioners”.
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Published on: January 10th, 2022
Looking Forward to the Next 25 Years, Part 6: Personal Transformations: A Celebration and a Request. In celebration of those steadfast MMR practitioners, who in addition to changing the lives of their students, have also experienced their own personal transformations, I am sending out the request to share your stories of having experienced powerful, personal transformations as educators, clinicians, math learners, and as human beings.
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Published on: October 26th, 2021
Looking Forward to the Next 25 Years, Part 5: Build Your Own Group Consultation Program (BYOG). The Making Math Real “Build Your Own Group” is a consultation-based program for groups of any size from individual participants to groups of any number. If forming a group of 2 or more participants, all group members must share a common baseline of completed courses, which will define the parameters of the content covered for each group.
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Published on: October 5th, 2021
25th Anniversary Special: The Problem With Word Problems – A Research Basis Part 1 Word problems, word problems, word problems – the most common requests I receive and the highest anxiety-causing mathematics – everybody gets so worked up about word problems! Throughout all the courses and over all the 46 years I have been an educator, many of you have heard me discuss the problem with word problems.
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