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We Need More Math Teachers. Here’s How to Prepare Them for Life in the Classroom.

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The ninth-graders in my classes and the preservice teachers I teach have one thing in common: math has not always come easy for them, and for many in both groups, learning math can be overwhelming. My answer: an immersive, 15-credit-hour semester of math. As Boaler asserts, “Everyone can learn math to high levels.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. And that's how people learn math. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. How do you prepare for that?

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Why Seamless Communication — in the Classroom and Beyond — Matters

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Communication from teachers to both students and parents has always been important in K-12 education. But in the tech-dependent era of distance and hybrid learning, clear and consistent communication—about grades, assessments, learning targets and a host of other school-related matters—may now be more important than ever.

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In College Math, Faculty Is Key. But Will This Insight Actually Help Students?

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A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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9 Good Online Math Tutoring Websites for Kids and Students

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When children are in kindergarten and first grade, the math curriculum focuses on number awareness and identification. Math for third graders can be more challenging since kids have to deal with fractions, decimals, and other complex math concepts that may prove novel.

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4 Reasons to use Word Problems and 9 Online Resources

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Word problems are popular and fun methods of teaching math and English in many schools. Language skills : Word problems involve reading and understanding written instructions, requiring students interpret written information, extract relevant details, and communicate solutions.

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Graphing–9 Lesson Plans + 6 Online Resources

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Communication of Ideas : Graphs provide a universal language for communicating ideas across different fields. Whether it’s analyzing trends in data, finding optimal solutions in optimization problems, or understanding the behavior of functions, graphing is a valuable tool for problem-solving.