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Child Care Providers are required to be licensed by the State of Minnesota Department of Human Services if they provide daycare services beyond what is allowed as a legally unlicensed child care provider. If interested in becoming a licensed daycare provider please contact the Nicollet County Child Care Licensor.

Rules & Regulations

Licensing rules are outlined in Minnesota Rules, Parts 9502.0300 – 9502.0445 (“Rule 2”), governing licensing of family child care and group family child care. The rules define minimum standards a provider must meet in order to be licensed. These standards relate to caregiver qualifications, caregiver training, license capacity, child/adult ratios, age distribution restrictions, behavior guidance, provider records, activities and equipment, the safety of the physical environment, sanitation and health, and water, food, and nutrition. Licensing regulations can be found in the statute under Minnesota Statutes sections 245A and 245C.

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Each Minnesota county acts as a licensing agent for the State of Minnesota to ensure that licensed providers comply with licensing rules. Providers are generally granted a 1-year license when they start daycare and may be granted either a 1-year or a 2-year license thereafter. They are also responsible to investigate any complaints received about a licensed provider.

Please visit the Minnesota Department of Human Services Family Child Care page for the most up to date forms and licensing information.

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Top 10 In Home Child Care in Minneapolis, MN

In home child care in Minneapolis, MN

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Hello! My name is Samantha. I love kids and looking for work as an occasional date night babysitter.
Experienced with all age levels and amounts of kids.

Recent Review:

Sam cared for our 15 month old child for several hours per day in a temporary nanny role for us this summer. She was prompt and good getting our son comfortable with her and playing happily. She read himstories and played outdoor activities with him. I will definitely hire her again!…

Reviewed by Carolyn S.

Kailen L.

Minneapolis, MN

$10-30/hr • 3 yrs exp
Experienced Babysitter And Home Cleaner Looking For New Opportunities And Learning Experiences.

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I am an artistic, fun, open minded, and caring individual. I have experience with cooking and cleaning. I am good with kids. I love animals of many types and have experience caring for them as well as kids. I have an interest in mindfulness and bettering myself along with others through natural andfriendly ways….

Recent Review:

Kailen is always great to have around. Strong positive energy comes from her. She is kind and loving.

Reviewed by Kathy P.

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Hello! My name is Allie and I am currently going into my senior year of nursing at Creighton University in Omaha. I am from Minnesota and am home for the summer to do an internship at Fairview Southdale Hospital. I have been babysitting ages newborn to 10 years old since I was in middle school, andI was a nanny for the spring and summer in 2020. I absolutely love babies and kids (especially toddlers) and am interested in pediatrics once I graduate. My schedule varies due to the internship, so I am looking for flexibility and/or occasional babysitting. I plan to go back to Omaha in mid-August, so if you are looking for child care this summer don’t hesitate to reach out if you would like to discuss further and interview!. ..

Recent Review:

Allie is a natural with kids. She watched my 1 year old for a day and he was obsessed with her! She kept him on his schedule which was greatly appreciated. I hired her when we were up north for a trip. We’refrom Dallas and I wish we could find someone like her down here! I definitely recommend hiring her!…

Reviewed by Megan B.

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Hello, my name is Grace. I am currently a freshman at Cuesta College and I live in San Luis Obispo. My classes are fully online which allows for me to be very flexible for work throughout the week. I have been a babysitter/ nanny for multiple families over the past 7 years and I have loved everysecond of it. I love doing outdoor activities, hide and seek, crafts, building forts, movie nights, and more! On top of watching your kids, I make sure to keep your house clean so when you come home you are able to sit down and enjoy yourself. I would also love to help you with running extra errands if needed, doing laundry, or walking the dog. If you would like to ask me any further questions feel free to contact me, I love meeting new people! I hope to be hearing from you soon….

Recent Review:

Grace was a great communicator and we always felt our kids were in great hands. She listened to our and their needs well and was great at being creative with play. She was timely and always cleaned up after herand the kids. We love Grace and can’t wait for her to come back in town to babysit again!…

Reviewed by Marybeth S.

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Hello! My name is Bre L and I love making meaningful and trusting relationships with children and their families. I had my own in-home daycare for 13 years, and now I am realtor, and I also nanny!

Recent Review:

Bre has been a good compliment to our parenting style. Our kids are always happy to have her over.

Reviewed by Kale T.

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I am an energetic, loving, and responsible nanny with 10+ years of experience! I am happily drug and tobacco-free and welcome change easily. I have a 4-year-old daughter who I have stayed at home with since birth. I occupy our days with engaging learning activities that also help to develop her finemotor skills. I also have experience as a toddler Montessori teacher as well as experience caring for infants and toddlers at a daycare. I also have a reliable vehicle and a clean driving record. Thank you for your interest and I can’t wait to connect with you!…

Recent Review:

Keyla is very good at what she does! She was a nanny for our child from age 9 months to 2 years. Throughout that time we appreciated her thoughtfulness, attention to detail, and the individual loving care sheprovided our child. She planned creative and educational activities tailored to our child’s energy levels. There were many books, songs, trips to libraries and parks, and cooking projects.
Keyla brought her own daughter along on many days. This was a plus because our child loved having someone close in age to learn and play with.
Keyla was proactive in helping with household tasks. For example, if she knew we had a trip soon, she would help pack our daughter’s things. She did our child’s laundry, helped with dishes and sweeping, and took our child on occasional grocery trips.
We would have continued with Keyla much longer, but we felt that our child was ready for daycare. We would recommend Keyla in a heartbeat to anyone seeking a caring, experienced, proactive nanny….

Reviewed by Laurelyn S.

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I am 23 years old and started babysitting when I was 13. I started working for several families in my church. I still on occasion work for some of those families now. All of the families I have worked for three or more children. When I graduated high school I started working as a nannyprofessionally for a family with three kids ages 3 months to three years. I worked for this family for almost three years before I took another job working at Biolife as the playroom attendant. There my job was to run the daycare room while parents donated. I could have up to 10 children per hour aging from 6 months to 12 years old. There I did crafts, reading stories, playing games and many other things. While working there I also babysat for several families on the side for date nights or weekend away vacations. I worked at Biolife for almost two years before I quit in search of something different. While looking for a new job now I work for several families doing some part-time nannying. One of the families I recently worked for took a missions trip to Chili and I stayed at their home and took care of their five children (aging between 2 to 10) for a week and half. After then I worked for another couple for about one week taking care of their five children ages between 1 and 8. During those times I prepared breakfasts, got the children up and ready for school, took the children to school or put them on the bus….

Recent Review:

Wonderful babysitter! My 4 year old autistic son, my 2 year old daughter and 10 month old daughter enjoyed each time she was here and I always came back home to happy faces. She was always on time and it was agood feeling knowing I left my kids in good hands. I recommend Kassandra to everyone!…

Reviewed by Jackie G.

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After my niece was born, I have found a new love caring for children. I have babysat my niece as well as some of the children of family friends. There is never an issue I can’t solve and feel confident with children. Babysitting is a great job for me, as I have discovered a full time job is too muchpressure. I am in High school and full time college, therefore am looking for jobs that I can fulfill without taking away from my studies. Despite this, I always am able to find time for children and enjoy caring or them. I have a big family with many pets and cannot babysit in my own home. Therefore, I am willing to take care of the children/children in their own home where they feel most comfortable….

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Hello! My name is Karlie and I just moved back home to Maryland. I have great experience working with children. Most recently, I worked full days every Saturday for a family with 5 children ranging from 1-11 years old. I worked for this family in Minnesota for about a year until I moved back home.In the past, I worked for 3 years in my church nursery and VBS program with kids ranging from 0-6. As a teen, I volunteered at a summer camp working with kids aged 8-12. In Summer 2015, I nannied for a family with a 7 and 6-year-old. Along with this full time job, I also provided back up care for families towards the end of the summer. During my first semester at Towson, I nannied for a family after school every day. Summer 2016, I worked full time for a family with two children with autism, ages 5 and 7. Summer 2018, I nannied a family of 3 boys. I mostly work with children in the summer months and hope to do so this year!…

Recent Review:

Karlie cared for our 12-year old daughter for a week at the beginning of this summer. Karlie was reliable, friendly, and responsive to any calls/texts from us. We would definitely contact Karlie again if theneeded arises….

Reviewed by Dawn R.

Nicole N.

Minneapolis, MN

$15-22/hr • 2 yrs exp
Bubbly, Energetic, Ambitious And Passionate Caregiver/Educator!

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Hi there! My name is Nicole, and I would love to be your next baby sitter or nanny! I’m CPR, First-Aid and AED certified. I have about two years of professional child care experience, including a summer’s work at the Children’s Theater Company where I assisted multiple teaching artists and agegroups throughout the summer. Since the summer I’ve been working with Minneapolis Kids at both Dowling and Pratt elementary. There I lead a very successful club in which we explore many topics, like gratitude practice, yoga, healthy eating habits and much more! I’m also a semi-professional player (yes it’s a real thing, no we don’t fly) and I’d love to bring as much physical activity as I can into your home! I love to keep a clean house and make great meals (Taco Tuesday is my favorite meal of the week) I cook a variety of different dishes, including a cauliflower puree soup, Mediterranean bowls, cooked salmon dishes, and a lot of pasta dishes. I would love to help out! :)…

Recent Review:

Nicole is a loving, patient, creative, enthusiastic, and talented care giver. Absolutely adore her. Only reason she no longer works with us is due to a re-injured shoulder that prevents her from carrying ourheavyweight B. around….

Reviewed by Liz G.

Jessica S.

Minneapolis, MN

$15-30/hr • 8 yrs exp
Experienced Childcare Worker Available For Occasional Babysitting And Tutoring

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Hello! I’m a Minneapolis native who loves the outdoors, art, and music. All of this comes out when I work with kids; let me tell you a little bit about my experience!
I started working with youth my first year of college when I got a summer job at the Concordia Language Villages. CLV is a languageimmersion camp in northern Minnesota- I worked at the Japanese village, so this means I would speak to campers in Japanese while we did cultural activities like calligraphy, shibori (traditional Japanese tie dye), or even at mealtimes and more typical camp activities like hiking and swimming.
I worked at camp for three summers, but I’ve been doing a lot of other stuff since then. I’ve worked with three different families providing in home childcare, for ages newborn-6. When I am with the kids for the afternoon or a full day, we like to go out to places like the park, the library, or the children’s museum. I prefer to focus my time on being outside and active, and being creative!…

Recent Review:

Jessica is creative, loving, and able to establish excellent rapport and boundaries with kids. Both my kids are ASD, and she was amazing with adapting to their needs. I highly recommend Jessica!

Reviewed by Adrienne C.

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Hi! My name is Claudia and I am a bubbly and loving caretaker:) I graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2021 and am planning on applying to dental school in the future! I currently work at a pediatric dental office as a dental assistant and have worked there since I graduated. In college, Iworked as a direct cafe professional in a group home for persons with physical and mental disabilities. I also have worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant in an assisted living as well. Additionally, I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor for three years at a local pool and have babysat throughout the years as well! Please reach out to me if you have any further questions. I would love to get to know you and your family-as I am a child at heart:)…

Recent Review:

Claudia is incredible! Not only has she been a great babysitter in the past but she also does an excellent job working with children at a pediatric dental clinic helping give kids a bright smile. She has alsobabysat for my nieces and they have consistently asked “When is Claudia coming back?”. She has a warm, loving personality that will give your kids a spark in their day!…

Reviewed by Nate Z.

Sarah F.

Minneapolis, MN

$15-25/hr • 10 yrs exp
Experienced Babysitter With Open Availability Flexible Hours

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Besides being a mother I have been around many children throughout my life. I grew up as the youngest of nine children. My mother has been running an in-home daycare since I was 9yrs old. I helped everyday after school and I help to this day if she has an appointment. I have many nieces and nephewsto which four of them I took care of from birth to grade school. I attended art school and love to incorporate artistic projects and adventures into my time with children. I am a patient person and can remain calm in hectic situations, which helps to create a positive surrounding. I’m extremely passionate about healthy living and self care. I enjoy swimming , doing yoga and spending time with my daughter….

Recent Review:

Sarah is great with our kids, she remains fun and calm while doing a wonderful job caring for them, and they love her.

Reviewed by Justin B.

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Hi, I’m Sydney! I’m currently enrolled at the University of Saint Thomas in Minnesota! I am home for summer and am hoping to make wonderful and unforgettable memories with your family! I have two years of experience working with newborns and children up to age 12! Under my care your kids willreceive the best care and create an endless bond! I am also willing to travel and do additional things around the house! With two years of experience, I can give your kids a safe, supervised, and caring environment for your children!. ..

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I’m 25 and a student teacher who will receiving their teaching license in May along with a masters Elementary Education from the UMN, I live in Minneapolis and I grew up with three younger brothers, so I can just abut handle anything – especially boy shenanigans. I was the neighborhood babysittergrowing up back home and was a nanny for a family of three girls for 2 years until they moved away. I was also a casual babysitter for a family with a young baby girl for 5 years until they also moved away. I love kids and have 3 years experience in a classroom setting and 6 years with my most recent nanny family. I’m fun, willing to clean and do laundry, cook healthy meals or those desired, good with rules, on time, flexible, and crafty. I also love to read and am a safe driver with a major seat-belt obsession….

Recent Review:

Rachel was a great summer nanny for us!

Reviewed by Ellen K.

Momma Care Day Care

2646 Knox Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411

Starting at $165/wk

Description:

Momma Care Day Care provides a nurturing educational environment for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years, With a creative curriculum, home cooked meals, and caring environment my mission is prepare children forschool and beyond. I have 25 years of experience as a child care lead teacher, and a nursing assistant….

Recent Review:

Was looking for a reliable, safe home based childcare program that did more than just watch my kids. At Momma Care Day Care, I can see growth and development. This feels like a true home away from home for mykids….

Reviewed by Yvonne C

Melanie Shaffer

901 Summer St Ne, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Costimate: $227/wk

Description:

Melanie Shaffer Day Care is a home-based childcare provider that serves the community of Minneapolis MN. It offers a warm and caring environment and provides age-appropriate activities for infants, toddlers,preschoolers, and school-age children. The home center has a capacity of ten children at the maximum….

Debra Denison

4715 31st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406

Costimate: $217/wk

Description:

Debra Denison in Minneapolis, Minnesota seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child’s overall growth and development. It is a Home-based Child Careprovider that can accommodate up to 10 children….

Delaine Barron

2605 36th Ave Ne, Minneapolis, MN 55418

Costimate: $188/wk

Description:

Delaine Barron offers home-based and full-time child care services designed for young children. The company admits and handles a total of 12 kids, infants up to 12-year old school-age children. Delaine Barron’shours of operation are from 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M….

Beverly Lind

3222 35th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406

Costimate: $217/wk

Description:

Beverly Lind is a locally operating provider that offers home-based child care services for young kids. The company serves the Minneapolis, MN community, and they are licensed to take care of ten full-timechildren. Beverly Lind handles infants up to school-age children….

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Recent in home child care reviews in Minneapolis, MN

Samantha H.

Sam cared for our 15 month old child for several hours per day in a temporary nanny role for us this summer. She was prompt and good getting our son comfortable with her and playing happily. She read him stories and played outdoor activities with him. I will definitely hire her again!

– Carolyn S.

Kailen L.

Kailen is always great to have around. Strong positive energy comes from her. She is kind and loving.

– Kathy P.

Allison B.

Allie is a natural with kids. She watched my 1 year old for a day and he was obsessed with her! She kept him on his schedule which was greatly appreciated. I hired her when we were up north for a trip. We’re from Dallas and I wish we could find someone like her down here! I definitely recommendhiring her!…

– Megan B.

Grace S.

Grace was a great communicator and we always felt our kids were in great hands. She listened to our and their needs well and was great at being creative with play. She was timely and always cleaned up after her and the kids. We love Grace and can’t wait for her to come back in town to babysit again!

– Marybeth S.

Breanne L.

Bre has been a good compliment to our parenting style. Our kids are always happy to have her over.

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Country Minnesota. The best students in the world, or How to teach children to learn

Country Minnesota

Of the three American students I observed, Eric was the only one who didn’t have an aversion to math. Coincidentally or not, Eric’s home state of Minnesota was one of only two states to come close to world-class math achievement. Roughly speaking, Minnesota ranked below a full dozen other countries (including Canada, Korea, and Finland) in math, in the US, only Massachusetts did better.

Eric had a solid mathematical background. There were many reasons for this, and one probably was that he was born at a good time. Had he been born earlier, things might have turned out differently.

In 1995, four Minnesota elementary school students scored below the US average on an international math test. Although Minnesota is a predominantly white, middle-class state, students there didn’t do well in math. However, when Eric started kindergarten two years later, the state had more reasonable and clear standards. When he was 11, Minnesota updated those standards again, following international criteria. By the time he started school, his peers were doing much better than the average for the US and most of the world. In 2007, elementary school students in Minnesota blew everyone away on the world’s premier math test, performing almost at the same level as Japanese children.

What did they do in Minnesota that they didn’t do in other states? It wasn’t a secret. Minnesota has built a pretty strong education system. Minnesota then adopted a single set of clear target standards. And it was a radical change. With him, the state overcame the most pressing problem of the fragmented American system. In the past, teachers in Minnesota—like all teachers in the country—were pestered by conflicting instructions about what to teach. Many American teachers had to oppose both state and district standards, which were often at odds with each other, and every spring teachers had to prepare children for type tests that often had nothing to do with the curriculum. Caught in a web of conflicting demands, they had to choose which one to ignore and which one to obey.

The purpose of American education was vague in every respect. The further I went, the more obvious it became. There was no better analogy for such confusion than the American textbook.

American teachers were trained from textbooks that were written to simultaneously meet the requirements of thousands of counties and multiple states, as detailed by education researcher William Schmidt. This meant that American textbooks, usually too long, covered too many topics superficially. Globally, the average 8th grade math textbook was 225 pages long, while in the US it averaged 800 pages. This is about 300 pages more than all 13 books of Euclid’s Elements.

The American tradition of local control is a nightmare for teachers. They are left to navigate as carefully as possible among conflicting requirements, repeating the same topics over and over again under the guidance of boring, lengthy textbooks. Some of the children who came every autumn studied prime numbers, and some did not. It was hard to predict.

The end result was that American students every year, from 1st to 8th grade, were taught, for example, fractions, while their peers in smarter countries were taught fractions from 3rd to 6th. In most states, American children learned decimals for 6 years, almost catatonic with boredom, while the children of educational superpowers learned decimals in 3 years and moved on. This meant that all the time that American children spent chewing on fractions could not be spent on learning another.

American schoolchildren every year, from 1st to 8th grade, were taught, for example, fractions, while their peers in smarter countries studied fractions from 3rd to 6th.

This also meant that in different algebra lessons in the same school or district, completely different material was covered, depending on the textbook chosen by the teacher. Geometry textbooks were especially arbitrarily composed: the two American geometry textbooks usually had little in common with each other. This partly explained the dramatic difference in data between schools, the large and inexplicable difference in children’s knowledge.

In Minnesota, a logical set of standards, aiming at mastering only a few rather than a dozen topics each year, helped remedy this shortcoming. At the same time, elementary school students across the state began spending 60 minutes a day on math, up from 30 in 1995. And something else happened. The new standards not only covered fewer topics, but also studied them deeper, they contained more complex material. Eric may have been bored in class at times, but not in the way he would be bored in most other places in the US. His staff deliberately brought their math education into line with the methods used in the best educated countries in the world, and succeeded.

The year Eric was in Korea, the rest of the states were going to do what they did in Minnesota. Despite a long history of mismatched standards and unreasonable parochialism, 45 states have agreed to adopt new, stricter standards in math and reading. This One Complex has been designed to the standards of the best educated countries. Kids don’t have to dabble in fractions anymore for 8 years, they’ll be done with it in 5 years, starting a couple of years later than before, but going deeper into the subject.

And yet criticism attacked the Unified Set of Standards. It has been pointed out that if teachers do not have sufficient math knowledge or training to implement them, the standards will remain on paper. Ironically, the Minnesota authorities refused to accept these standards, preferring to continue working with those that already existed. Texas, Virginia, and a handful of other states have done the same. It remained to be seen if America would take this obvious step towards world-class schools or turn back.

Interestingly, the only lesson Eric liked in Korea was math. He noticed it on his first day of school. In Korea, mathematics was taught in a different way, in a way that even in Minnesota it was hard to imagine.

Apparently there was a geometry lesson. Since Eric had always been good at geometry and graduated from high school, he understood most of the assignments. However, he noticed that here they studied geometry in a completely different way from the way he taught it.

The teacher combined trigonometry and calculus in one lesson, threading explanations through the disciplines as if geometry were just one solar system in a larger universe of mathematics. Different disciplines together helped solve problems in the real world, where mathematics did not fit into clear categories. After all, geometry is the science of forms, and calculation is the science of change. To understand how shapes behave when they change—maybe for video game development—you need both.

Eric seemed to wake up. He didn’t know geometry could be so interesting. He always did well in math in Minnesota, but sometimes he found it boring. In the third grade, the teacher told his mother that he had trouble adding two digits and did badly on a test. Mom asked to see the test and noticed that Eric left many questions unanswered. Then she looked at the answer sheet at arm’s length and saw that the filled-in boxes formed a certain shape. It was the letter “E”. Eric was so fed up with math that he amused himself by drawing his initial on the questionnaire.

In 2009, most surveys of American parents showed that they considered it more important for their children to graduate from high school with good reading and writing skills than with math and science skills.

In Korea, mathematics went like clockwork. When the teacher asked questions, the children answered as if mathematics were a language they knew by heart. As in Tom’s class in Poland, calculators were banned and the children did mental arithmetic.

Eric was impressed with his understanding of calculus at the second year level. These Korean regular class kids were better at math than sophomores in his home country. If Minnesota saw that children can rise to a higher level in math knowledge, then Korea proved that this is not the limit.

And the rest of the states basically continued to underestimate the capabilities of children, and the children themselves understood this. When Kim, Eric, and Tom were growing up, 4 out of 10 American fourth graders said their math assignments were too easy. By 8th grade, 7 out of 10 children went to a school that didn’t even offer an algebra course with content that was standard in most other countries. It is no coincidence that American children lagged behind their peers in smarter countries—they were essentially taking extra math classes whether they needed it or not.

Compared to other countries, a typical 8th grade math lesson in the US included 6th or 7th grade assignments, by the same standards, the best-performing countries taught 8th graders math in the 9th grade curriculum.

Why was the math ability of American children consistently underestimated?

In middle school, both Kim and Tom decided that math was a subject you either understood or you didn’t, and they didn’t.

Interestingly, most American children did not say this about reading. If you don’t do well in reading, you can, as most people think, make up for it with hard work and a good teacher. But in the US, for some reason, mathematics was considered almost an innate ability, like phenomenal flexibility.

The point is that American adults didn’t like math or didn’t think it was important to life. In 2009, most surveys of American parents showed that they considered it more important for their children to graduate from high school with good reading and writing skills than with math and science skills. It was as if math was an optional subject, like drawing. Half of these parents said that their children were taught science and math normally in school, and they were right by the standards of another era.

But by today’s standards, any decent job required fluency in mathematics and science. Suppliers had to be able to take into account inflation in the estimate. X-ray technicians used geometry. In real life, mathematics has not been optional for a long time.

It is generally accepted that young children learn languages ​​easily. At 2 or 3 years of age, their brains are absorbing and integrating a second or third language at a rate that 10-year-olds cannot compete with. Why didn’t we understand that mathematical language is the same for them?

Early childhood programs in America emphasized reading, the arts and creativity and behavior were important skills. However, the numbers game was still considered taboo, a subject best left for later, despite America’s apparent and steady lag.

For too long what American children have been taught has been accidental. But the fact is that mathematics is a hierarchy. If kids like Tom and Kim missed one step, they couldn’t make it and slipped down without ever reaching the next step. An elementary course in algebra has a lasting effect on a child, whether he does math in high school or abandons math altogether.

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Community Resources – STEP

2-1-1 United Way 211 or 651-291-0211 or https://www.211unitedway.org/ or send your zip code to 898-211 (M-F 8am-7pm).

Minnesota has established a general coronavirus hotline at 651-201-3920 or 1-800-657-3903 available from 7 am to 7 pm via MDH.

Crisis Hotlines
  • Crisis Communications (Confidential Crisis Hotline open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week) 612-379-6363
  • COPE (Psychiatric Crisis Services) 612-596-1223
  • Minnesota Day One Crisis Hotline (Network of Community-Based Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Programs) – Hotline at 1-866-223-1111 www.dayoneservices.org.
  • Cornerstone (Family Violence Services) 1-866-223-1111
  • Crisis Nursery (crisis service for families with young children) 763-591-0100 www. crisisnursery.org
  • Sexual Violence Center (Sexual Violence Hotline available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week) 612-871-5111 www.sexualviolencecenter.org.
SUICIDE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT

IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILY IS IN A CRISIS AND NEED IMMEDIATE HELP THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES CAN HELP YOU:

  • National Suicide Prevention Line 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
  • Throughout Minnesota: Call **CRISIS (**274747)
  • Crisis text string: Text ” MN ” on 741741 .
  • Employment Action Center 612-752-8400 or www.eac-mn.org.
  • AVIVO 612-752-8000 www.avivomn.org
  • Jewish Service for Family and Children – 952-546-0616 www.jfcsmpls.org.
  • Hennepin County Community Action Partnership (CAP-HC) 952-930-3541 or www.caphennepin.org.
  • HeatShare 1-800-842-7279 www.salvationarmynorth.org
  • Fares for All – Inexpensive Monthly Meal Packages 1-800-582-4291 or www. fareforall.orgwww.fareforall.org.
  • WIC – Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program for Pregnant or Nursing Mothers and Children under 6 years of age. 612-348-6810 or http://www.health.state.mn.us/wic.
  • MAC – Maternal and Child Nutritional Program – 651-484-8241 or www.health.state.mn.us.
  • NAPS – Income Eligible Adults Age 60 and Over Nutrition Program 651-484-8241 or http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/csfp/.
  • SNAP Nutritional Support for Financial Assistance Eligible Individuals and Families Food Assistance Line 1-888-711-1151 or click here
    Central Clinic (Free Clinic for Children and Teens) 952-993-1100
  • St. Mary’s Clinics (income eligible and uninsured) 651-287-7777
  • Cash assistance programs 612-348-3000 or http://www.hennepin.us/residents/human-services/cash-assistance.
  • Emergency 612-596-1900 (families) or 612-596-1300 (adults without children) or https://www.hennepin.us/residents/human-services/emergency-assistance.
  • Western Suburban Community Service Center (M-F, 8am-4:30pm) 1011 Wells Fargo 1st Street, Hopkins
  • HousingLink (Internet search for housing, including a list of subsidized housing) www.housinglink.org.
  • HOME Line (tenant rights organization) 612-728-5767 or www.homelinemn.org.
  • Shelter Services (discuss options with Hennepin County Shelter Team) 612-348-9410
  • Legal Aid (professional legal services for individuals eligible for financial assistance), 612-334-5970 or www.mylegalaid.org.
  • Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid (MMLA) – MMLA’s Government Benefits Unit and Immigration Law Project (MMLA’s Government Benefits Unit and Immigration Law Project) is available to answer immigrant questions about government fees. For assistance, community members can call Legal Aid at 612-332-1441 or 1-800-292-4150 during IMLA office hours (Mondays 9:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 am). Language services are available to all callers.