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Do teachers really understand mathematics, or do they go through the motions? I'm guessing most math teachers know how to do math, but as I grew as a mathematician I began to see the beauty in math and wondered why I haven't seen it before. If you are Read More...
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Student, teacher, and even parent attitude all are what students are affected by on a daily basis. If your friend doesn't like Coldplay, neither will you. But, if your parents feel like math isn't something you need then you wont excel at it either. Students, Read More...
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Finding ways to get students to write about mathematics has played a pivotal role in my development and growth as a math teacher. Mathematical writing challenges students to express their ideas clearly and efficiently; it forces students to stop thinking Read More...
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Students love watching YouTube videos and incorporating them in to your lessons are educational, but also entertaining for the students to watch. Tough algebra terms can be reduced to simply rhymes and raps like this school. The same school even put together Read More...
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Different types of presentation and strategies are the reasons why students perform well. From journals to cooperative learning activities these different assessment strategies are great for students to know that there is more than bubble testing and Read More...
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Please, teach with your iPad. Math applications can range from flash cards to graphing calculators. One day an iPad can be a textbook, next a calculator, then review sheets. Lately, there have been several reference apps that contain formulas and other Read More...
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Math disabilities can arise at nearly any stage of a child's scholastic development. While very little is known about the neurobiological or environmental causes of these problems, many experts attribute them to deficits in one or more of five different Read More...
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I ran across this article that was mentioning desirable difficulties, desirable difficulties are adjustments to teaching that slow down learning in the short term, but improve long-term retention. In other words, making learning harder can actually make Read More...
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Chrome Experiments is a new part of Google that uses WebGL a new form that uses 3D modeling and this would be great to use in all sorts of different mathematics. There are different chrome experiments and there are ones called Spiral Tip, Turing Patterns, Read More...
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Contrary to popular belief, mathematicians must write and must write well. Statisticians write coherent reports; math educators express themselves in the discipline; and pure mathematicians communicate complex, yet precise ideas. Writing is a valuable Read More...
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Listed below are research-based questioning strategies you can use in your classroom. These meta-cognitive questions can help students at each stage of the problem-solving process. As students work on problems that require problem solving, remind them Read More...
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I was thinking of incorporating cell phones in to the math classroom and was getting materials from the library when I found an interesting book called Cell Phones in the Classroom by Liz Kolb. There are a few lesson plans in the book that relate cell Read More...
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Cubelets are magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no wires. You can build robots that drive around on a tabletop, respond to light, sound, and temperature, and have suprinsingly lifelike Read More...
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Looking for a supplemental activity to round out your lesson plan about the Klondike Gold Rush? The following activities were designed by instructors for instructors limited by time and resources. The activities appeal to a wide range of learning styles Read More...
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Comic Book is a application on the iPad where you can take pictures or use pictures off the web to to put them together. A certain lesson can come from gathering different images and having your students put together a collage of different math historical Read More...
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