math
Building School Culture: JiJi Thrives at Palomino
From the outside looking in, Palomino Intermediate School is a very unassuming building located in central Phoenix. Truth is, there are amazing things happening inside the walls of Palomino, and we were lucky enough to experience them first hand last month.
MangaHigh Launches New Math Game in This Post-Flash World
Talking to Toby Rowland CEO and founder and CTO, Jon Webb, of MangaHigh, the company took on a the challenge and decided to create a game outside of the confines of Flash. Knowing that within the education space, users are on every type of device now, from desk top, lap top, Android or Windows tablet, iPad, even a smart phone, they were determined to create a game that had the appeal of flash, but would not be limited to simply being played on a desk top computer.
4 Tools to Connect Students to Real World Math
While interdisciplinary units and project based learning are powerful methods of helping students connect school learning to the real world, I suspect many teachers reading this post might be looking for some ideas for use right away, perhaps even tomorrow. Here are some resources that are ready and waiting for use, regardless of your tech comfort zone.
EdTech 10: “News You Can Use”
Whether you’re a teacher, administrator, parent, student or education data lover - all the information is available from the hugely robust The Nation’s Report Card website. But before you get distracted by our nation’s students progress, have a look at what else happened in the world of EdTech this week.
Measuring Mindset in Math 180
To learn more about academic mindset and how to measure it, I called Dockterman, Scholastic's chief architect of learning sciences and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Give Math a Chance
When we make it socially acceptable to be bad at math, are we setting our kids up to fail? Rather than just avoid it because it’s difficult, we need to encourage our students to embrace it because of its difficulty.
ST Math Ready To Go Full Scale
Great news for STEM education! Change the Equation announced that ST Math and three other excellent STEM programs are ready to easily enter any classroom in the nation.
New White Paper: The Future of Learning
This digital shift we are experiencing in education right now is exactly what prompted Tom to author the new white paper, The Future of Learning: Personalized, Adaptive, and Competency-Based.
Blended Learning Success at Gilroy Prep
From the beginning, Gilroy Prep’s blended learning curriculum has been intentional, including two touch screen computer labs, as well as teacher presentation equipment in each classroom.
Students are Dreaming Big at Cleveland Elementary
The staff at Cleveland recognize that digital, adaptive learning is the wave of the future and not taking advantage of it and providing it for students is unwise because this is exactly how they will be functioning and learning for the rest of their lives.