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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? Learners achieve higher achievement scores in math One 2016 randomized study by Roschelle et al found that students attained higher achievement scores when teachers combined one-on-one attention and web-based homework tools.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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Real-World, Meaningful Problems This kind of scenario — linking the drama of mountaineering with work on percentages in middle school math — can effectively be used in a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in the classroom. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems.

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

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Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching.

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They Started Teaching During the Pandemic Year. Where Are They Now?

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They’d need to make do with haphazard plans for distance learning through the end of the school year — perhaps longer. Of those five, one left teaching during her third year, and another will resign next month, at the end of the school year. The other three are still teaching and plan to continue. I spent the first 3.5

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How to Increase Student Engagement During Project-Based Learning

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Project-based learning is a teaching method that utilizes hands-on learning experiences to help students further develop their skills in various subjects. Regardless of grade level, it can be difficult to keep students engaged throughout project-based lessons.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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Interactive Digital Whiteboards are Great Tools to Enhance Your Teaching

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More specifically, a digital whiteboard is a platform in which digital content is projected on a screen that allows the students to interact directly with it, either by touch or with a pointer. In fact, it is this interactive feature that makes digital whiteboard such powerful learning tools.

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