Place Based Education
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Leadership
Vancouver Pilots Comprehensive Open Math Curriculum
Vancouver has been an education leader for 180 years. VPS is piloting open math curriculum to provide a common, coherent, guaranteed curriculum.
EdTech
7 Ways to Boost Your K-8 Math Program
By: Caralee Adams. School leaders in a rapidly improving school district with a high-poverty population share what has worked in their schools to boost math performance district-wide among K–8 students.
EdTech
Smart Review | littleBits STEAM Student Set & STEAM Teacher PD
By: Matt Cohen. As a STEM and math teacher, I recently had the opportunity to explore and provide the Smart Review about the littleBits STEAM Student Set as well the littleBits STEAM online Professional Development.
EdTech
Smart Review | Education App Gets Kids AND Parents Engaged in Learning
Our staff tested out the new mobile learning app Epic Heroes of Knowledge, which gets both children and parent engaged in learning fun through traditional and non-academic subjects.
STEM & Maker
Mathematical Modeling For High School Students
By: Sasan Erfan and Yunkai Zhang. Mathematical modeling is an integral yet underrepresented part of our society. So student-founded AoCMM is on a mission to inform, excite and educate high school students everywhere about this necessary field of study.
EdTech
Smart Review | Todo Math is a Great Daily Adventure
After spending a morning testing it out, both my son and I found the Todo math app to be user-friendly and fun, and feel it is without a doubt a great math learning tool.
Early Learning
9 Children’s Books That Combine Storytelling with Math
Math is all around us, and stories are one way we attempt to understand the world. So here is a list of good books for children compiled by our friends at MIND Research that use story-telling to explore math concepts.
Personalized Learning
3 Ways to Reboot Remedial Math Class
By: Lawrence Smith. A growing number of math educators are finding success when they actually increasing the rigor of instruction for struggling students, using a teaching model based on an architecture of intensification.
EdTech
New DreamBox Learning Feature Provides Personalized Learning Experiences
DreamBox Learning's new AssignFocus™ feature takes a single assignment request from a teacher and automatically generates individual, personalized lessons for each student based on their needs.
Personalized Learning
Why Should We Use Case Studies in the Math Classroom?
By: Julie Martin. If your math students are showing a lack of interest in their studies, here is one teaching method that usually works to increase engagement regardless of the students' ages.