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Rethinking Math Teaching
I've recently been binging on math-related TED Talks and all the great ideas out there almost make me wish I taught math. While I have yet to create a museum exhibit about math, wouldn't it be great to teach it like something people want to learn instead of have to learn?
Pin for Math Awareness: 10 Math Pinterest Boards to Follow
In April, I turn to the social media site to help build math awareness. Whether you are a math expert, a teacher, a parent, or anything in-between, check out these 10 boards to see how pinterest has helped create a new way to engage in mathematics. Happy Math Awareness Month!
Lessons from KIPP Math Blends
The KIPP Chicago team found that strong classroom management is key to ensuring success of instructional technology. They also found that teachers benefit most from synthesized, actionable data--and training on how to use it. Teachers need to know how to use the programs.
EdTech 10: Spring Fever
Spring has sprung and is overflowing with exciting launches and announcements of new products and tools. Here are this week’s 10 most exciting “sprouts” we picked out of the EdTech “garden.”
Better Blends With Visual Game-Based Math
A white paper that highlights MIND Research Institute's game-based math instructional tool, Spatial-Temporal Math (ST Math®) and the benefits of blended learning for teachers and students.
Visual Learning Math Program ST Math Expands Curricula
New ST Math programs expand the previously offered intervention and fluency programs and help to prepare students for success in Algebra 1. New programs include ST Math: Grade 6, ST Math: Middle School Supplement, and ST Math: High School Intervention.
Making Math 3D
As you might have guessed, the math teacher in me can’t help but immediately think about how I would use this idea in the classroom, and the truth is there are a number of ways that a 3D printer can advance students conceptual understanding of fundamental and complex mathematics.
New Android App Makes Math Adaptive for Students
By: Allan Folz. From the technology stand-point, Allan reports that their apps have two fundamental features which set them apart from the typical offerings in the app marketplaces: an adaptive problem generator and screen captures of student's work.
Next Generation Blends will Teach to One
Over the last three years, the New Classrooms team has developed an instructional model that seeks to addresses the inherent limitations in one of the more common forms of blended learning-rotational models- where students transition among two or three learning stations within a class period.
Reflections on Khan Blends
It was a visit to a class at Eastside College Prep using Khan Academy that inspired Scott Ellis to “really dive into blended.” Scott shares his observations along with a recent SRI report.