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#45: How to Use MS Word to Teach Geography

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Have students use math skills to decide how many more they need. from the Structured Learning Technology series for K-5 For more lesson plans, visit Ask a Tech Teacher Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved. Make font size 10 and use abbreviations to fill in names. Discuss the abbreviations. Be concise and factual.

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Fun Math Games to Help Students Practice Math Concepts and Skills

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This is even so with subjects that are notoriously known for being dry and boring such as math. In this post, I share with you a wide variety of resources where you can search for and find fun math games to use with your students in and out of class. Cool Math games are student friendly and can be used in school and at home.

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Digipuzzle Offers Tons of Free Online Educational Games for Kids

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These games target various skill areas from math and geography to science and human body. Digipuzzle is a website that offers a wide variety of free online educational games for kids. I spent some.read more.

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100th Day of School — It’s about Learning

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How to celebrate Here are activities I like that blend learning into the celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography As a class, come up with two locations in each state, to total 100. One will be oriented around geography and one around history (such as “Kansas became a state January 29, 1861” ).

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Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt?

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The need to strengthen the science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) careers pipeline has received renewed interest lately. Another Language A reader from Utah : “For me the breakthrough was finding out math is just another language with its own grammar and syntax. Can math be taught [or] is it just a gift.

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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

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Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enriches the classroom learning experience by overlaying digital content onto real-world content, simply using devices that already exist in most classrooms, like tablets and smartphones. So, I started digging deeper into using technology [itself] as a manipulative. It was just a mess.

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Technology and Explanation in Modern Education

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Her article today can be summed up by a line in the last paragraph: “ Technology is not your enemy…” Educators aim to equip students with an understanding of the world, its fragility, & opportunities, by teaching them various common subjects like math, language, or science. You can contact her via LinkedIn.