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

ED Surge

One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. Over time, I have heard my ninth grade students and preservice teachers say things like, “I have never been good at math” and “I am not a math person.”

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How to Differentiate Instruction in Elementary Math

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Young children have many different ability levels with math concepts. Understandably, kindergarten and elementary teachers need to reach every student where they are on their learning journey, but it isn't always easy. Resources on Differentiating Math Instruction Mentioned in the Show. eSpark is free forever for teachers.

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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

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Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. And so he approached his guidance counselor and asked why he wasn’t in the honors math class. “Oh, Oh, do you want to try?,” Holmes recalls the adviser replying.

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Teaching Math

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Every lower-grade teacher I know has huge numbers of students who love math but the older they get, the more those numbers shrink until by Middle School, they’re anemic, at best. The solution according to some students, is to instill the cerebral skills that support math prior to kindergarten. Math Games in the Classroom.

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

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But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. Or even newer math ?) So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education?

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To Close the Math Achievement Gap, We Must Recognize What Students Bring to the Classroom

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Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow the algorithmic steps of the math problem, she struggles with her reasoning and ability to make sense of the steps she is taking.

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5 Tips from talkSTEM/Comerica Teacher Fellow for Elementary Math Classrooms!

Talk STEM

Engaging students in Math and STEM learning can be difficult at times – and talkSTEM is here to help. talkSTEM resources can work in conjunction with the new Eureka Math curriculum, launched this school year across the Dallas Independent School District, encouraging students not just to learn, but to ask why. Share and Enjoy !