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    • Originally published 1966 Abridged
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    • SES Preschoolers Learning Advanced Cognitive Skills
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  Training Videos
  • Teaching English Pronunciation: A 13-Part Course
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• DI Videos
  • The Genius of Zig Engelmann-A Biography (2012)
  • Kindergarteners Showing Off Math Skills-1966
  • Zig's 4-year-old Twins Show Off Math Skills --1963
  • Zig's 2011 ADI Keynote: It All Begins With Teaching
  • Conversation with Siegfried (Zig) Engelmann (2008)
  • Theory of Direct Instruction (2009)
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  • About Me
  • Thank You Josh Baker--An account involving
    • a man who influenced me greatly
  • A Night of Frost--a novel written in the 50s by me
  • VITA
  • Original Song: Proud to be a Railroad Man
  • Newly Discovered Secrets of Maya
• Zig Watercolors

Proud to be a Railroad Man
by Zig and Nathan Engelmann

When I was 16, I spent the summer working for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Indiana. I was a "common" laborer, known as a gandy dancer.

Featured Video

Kindergarteners Showing Off Their Math Skills 1966 Uncut demonstration of at-risk children who were taught math by Zig Engelmann as four year olds and five year olds. The session was filmed in front of a class of college students in August with no rehearsal. Children work addition, subtraction, multiplication, division problems, basic algebra problems, fraction problems, area problems, factoring, and simple simultaneous equations.

Watercolors by Zig

Oregon coast, south of Coos Bay