Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Beth Kobett, Jill Henry, Avery Zachery, Cindy Garcia, Molly ...
Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow ...
Funded by a $3 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the Department of Education, Elizabeth Public Schools, which educates 23,374 students in 33 schools in New Jersey, will expand its use of ...
1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...
Many high-school chemistry students would probably love a teacher like Robert A. Gonzales. During a class at James Bowie High School here last month, he asked his students to figure out the alignment ...
BLACKSBURG, Va. — There are no professors in Virginia Tech's largest classroom, only a sea of computers and red plastic cups. In the Math Emporium, the computer is king, and instructors are reduced to ...