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Math Applications for Academically Precocious Teens
A Seattle area dad called last week because his 12 year old daughter is bored in math. I recommended a few apps and a look at the coding, robotics, DIY, and maker space for application opportunities. What would you suggest?
Blended Learning Moves into Teacher Prep Programs
With universities’ drive to stay relevant, motivated teachers’ demand for a different way to teach mathematics, and the country’s focus on college and career-ready standards, a program like this is not only vital to the future of math education but an outstanding model for the way in which K-12 and Higher Ed must come together to better prepare teachers for personalized, blended learning.
Digital Learning Tools: Bridging the Learning Gap
R.G. Wilmot (Wil) Lampros. Access to high-quality education that prepares students for success in college and careers is uneven throughout our country. As the recent PISA study results demonstrate, our students are lagging behind their counterparts around the world.
Platform Understands Students’ Strategies
“The platform learns about the student with each of his or her clicks. We learn with the students while the student learns”, says Jessie, who completes with: “The longer the student spends in the platform, the more the platform learns about him or her”.
Why is Math So Important?
To quote the futurist Alvin Toffler, “The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but, rather those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” A solid foundation in mathematics and science develops and hones the skills of posing hypotheses, designing experiments and controls, analyzing data, recognizing patterns, seeking evidence, conclusions and proof, solving problems and seeking absolutes, while being open to new information.
6 Ways Common Core Math Standards Will Affect Your Child’s Education
Even outside of education circles, many people have heard of the Common Core State Standards for education. These standards represent a shift in philosophy towards higher standards for students. However, this shift in thinking brings a number of changes to the mathematics education that your child will receive.
Partnership for LA Schools Making Progress
“Blended learning continues to be a focus across our network in math/literacy,” said Oliver. Like many districts, the Partnership has made more progress at the elementary level. “ST Math and Achieve3000 are our best programs,” added Oliver, “we are piloting ST Math at one of our high schools this year and continue to work closely with the MIND Research Institute including having a group of our elementary teachers write model lessons for them.”
One Family’s Holiday Gift: A Love of Mathematics
Math is deep, and I can appreciate that not everyone, even people who love math, want to jump into the deep end on Christmas Eve. I’ve never been a person accustomed to small talk though, so a conversation about place value on Christmas Eve seems like as good a topic as any.
Door #24 – New Math App for Blended Classrooms
This Math App provides teachers and parents with a tool to help kids build an understanding of the base ten number system, knowledge of number relationships, and a deeper understanding of mathematical operation and the relations between them.
SAS Curriculum Pathways Provides Online Resources at No Cost
SAS Curriculum Pathways can be implemented at the district, school or individual classroom level. This highly interactive curriculum resource provides teachers with specific topic related lessons as well as interactive skill building tools.