Math & Movement™ Video
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Suzy in the News
ABC Television spot about first graders learning to multiply using Suzy's methods:
Moving to the Math Beat by Bill Chaisson
Reprinted with permission from Ovid Gazette/Interlaken Review, April 7, 2010
Todd Kurzweil has been teaching elementary school at South Seneca Schools for 22 years. He arrived at South Seneca fresh out of graduate school and taught kindergarten for three years, moving on to fourth grade for one year, spending several years with the second grade and the last half dozen years teaching remedial math. Last year he wrote his first grand proposal, and last month he was informed that his application to the Ujeni Foundation had been successful. With the $9, 995 from the foundation-which operates under the umbrella of the Community Foundation of Tompkins County-the math teacher, will be able to continue the "Math and Movement" program at South Seneca.
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South Seneca Students Show Off the Jaguar Multiplication Dance by Staff Writer
Reprinted with permission from The Ithaca Journal, November, 2009
South Seneca Elementary School's second grade received a grant to have Ithaca mathematics education consultant Suzanne Kuntz, known by her pen name Suzy Koontz, in residence for two months.
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Pi is Not Square in Newfield by Stacey Shackford
Reprinted with permission from The Ithaca Journal, June 2, 2009
It used to be that parents and teachers would have to drag their children kicking and screaming to practice their multiplication tables. But in Torey Compton's classroom, they're kicking up their heels and screaming with glee when it comes time to count.
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Math Made Fun! by Andrea Hazard
Reprinted with permission from the Broader View Weekly, July 25, 2008
'Fun' and 'math' are two words that are not often used in the same sentence, but author Suzy Kuntz hopes to change that. She has developed a fun way to teach multiplication that is detailed in her two-book set, the "Multiply with Me" Instructor Guide and Student Handbook.
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Dance, Repetition Reinforces Multiplication by Aaron Munzer
Reprinted with permission from The Ithaca Journal, June 18, 2008
At first, it might seem like an odd way to learn math. As part of their multiplication practice, Northeast Elementary School students in Margaret Steinacher's first grade class dance, shout and clap.
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Numbers game — Increasing Math Literacy in Young Children by Sue Smith-Heavenrich
Reprinted with permission from the Ithaca Child, Finger Lakes Family Fun, Summer 2007
When our children our very young, even before they speak their first words, we begin reading to them. We tell tales, sing songs, walk our fingers up their arms as we recite silly rhymes. By the time our children are ready to read, they have a firm grounding in language, they have a feel for rhythm and flow of words, and a broad vocabulary to build on.
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Taking the Anxiety Out of Learning Math by Sue Henniger
Reprinted with permission from the Tompkins Weekly, December 18-24, 2006
Suzanne Kuntz has a goal, to eliminate "math phobia" for future generations of kids. As a teen, Kuntz had a math tutor who became frustrated when she had trouble mastering certain math skills. Instead of causing her to give up on math, this inspired her to major in math in college, to receive a master's degree in statistics and to work as an actuary, developing rates for insurance companies for more than a decade.
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Math Instructor Has All the Right Moves
Reprinted with permission from the Tompkins Weekly
If you want children to learn math, get them moving, says Suzanne Kuntz. Kuntz, who writes under the pen name Suzy Koontz, recently published an instructor's guide and a workbook for her "Multiply With Me" program. She was inspired to write the books from her success with homeschooled students taking her math workshops.
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First Grade Multiplication Dance
The students from Ms. Margaret Steinacher's first-grade class at Northeast Elementary perform a math/dancing routine that they learned over the course of 10 weeks. The performance was part of a research project by math author and educator Suzanne Kuntz, who is writing a new book about teaching basic math/multiplication using movement and dancing for memorization and association help.
