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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. Common Core–Math Lesson Plans 160 pages, 20 projects, over 114 Common Core standards, for 9 grades (K-8). What these books show is how to use technology to teach.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. The teachers just expect her to understand the math right away, she says.

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JUNE 23, 2022

An article over at The Tech Edvocate caught my eye on early math. Math is a fundamental process in learning, not just adding and subtracting but to develops skill in problem solving and critical thinking. Here’s The Tech Edvocate’s article: Teaching Early Geometry Concepts. Teaching Math.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Engaging children in math learning is a problem that continues relentlessly, year after year. We don’t seem to know how to fix the dropping math scores (and reading but that’s for another article). Math Scores Drop Again –December 17, 2021. Math Games in the Classroom. Math Word Problems.

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MARCH 11, 2022

Two math celebrations are coming up on March 14th : Pi Day and World Maths Day. World Maths Day. The first World Maths Day was held on March 14, 2007 (also Pi Day), and has ever since been held occasionally on the 1st Wednesday in March. Find out more at the World Maths Day Website. More on math.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Looking for a more interesting way to teach math in these unusual times? Here are a variety of sites that share Math Word Problems–the real-world way to teach what some see as a daunting subject: Expii Solv e–math word problems and puzzles, lots of them. Math and Logic Problems.

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APRIL 13, 2022

After April 15th, there are great ways to teach about economics, financial literacy, and prepare students for managing their lives fiscally once they’re launched into the world: Bankaroo –a virtual bank for kids. Motion Math –make your own pizza and make money. Rate-zip –how to teach financial topics to K-12.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Grade Level: 5th (or whichever grade you are teaching arrays) Background: None. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. 2 Khan Academy. 3 IXL Learning.

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JULY 25, 2023

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? Modern educational tools make it possible to add a practical edge to math lessons, as students can observe math structures at play in the real world and see how people apply these formulas to solve common challenges.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Technology has been part of math education for decades, mostly as rote drills and a replacement for worksheets, often to assist in memorizing tables. This inevitable change is particularly true for math education, as interactive math lessons for kids are becoming more commonplace online. How to use technology to learn math 1.

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APRIL 14, 2021

Struggling with helping students learn math when you can’t be at their side? Try these videos ( check here for updates to links ): Bright Storm math videos. Khan Academy –online progressive math program; free. Math Class with Terry V. Math DrBob . Math Videos. Math videos –clean, nice.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Use this to teach students about the tool bar’s alignment tools, bold, fonts and font size Insert a graphic organizer ( insert-diagram or one you have pushed out to students). Have students use math skills to decide how many more they need. Time: About 30 minutes Steps: Open MS Word. Discuss the abbreviations.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Subjects like math and science — the ones only “smart” kids do well in — demand that you find patterns, unravel clues, connect one dot to another, and scaffold knowledge learned in prior lessons. Don’t say science and math are hard. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

The difficulties with engaging children in math learning grows each year. I have several articles coming up next week that discuss that issue (links won’t work until publication date): What is ‘Technical Math’ –December 10, 2021 (this article). Math Scores Drop Again –December 17, 2021.

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MAY 8, 2023

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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JANUARY 8, 2024

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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DECEMBER 20, 2023

When we asked the Ask a Tech Teacher team to apply it specifically to teaching physical education–not something we usually think of with tech tools–they came up with these great ideas: Using ChatGPT to Revolutionize PE Teaching: 5 Expert Strategies! It is also having an impact on physical education and health.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is one of the most popular lessons I teach to Excel beginners. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. It is relevant, instantly usable and makes sense from the beginning. Before you start this one, you might want to complete Project 7 0 and 71.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This is well-suited to teaching academic vocabulary for all and domain-specific for particular topics (such as math). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. If that isn’t sufficient, students use affixes — prefixes, suffixes, and roots — to decode meaning.

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MARCH 16, 2021

After April 15th, there are great ways to teach about economics, financial literacy, and prepare students for managing their lives fiscally once they’re launched into the world: Bankaroo –a virtual bank for kids. Motion Math –make your own pizza and make money. Rate-zip –how to teach financial topics to K-12.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Word problems are popular and fun methods of teaching math and English in many schools. Word Problems from Math Playground Would You Rather –more like a justification for decisions using math Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Copyright ©2024 worddreams.wordpress.com – All rights reserved.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Teaching Kids to Use Tally Charts: Fun and Educational Activities As parents and educators, we are constantly on the lookout for creative and engaging ways to teach children important skills. In this blog post, we will explore various fun and educational activities that can help you teach kids how to use tally charts effectively.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). I recently received an email from the folks at Model Teaching.

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APRIL 7, 2021

Financial Literacy Month is recognized annually in Canada in November, [1] and National Financial Literacy Month was recognized in the United States in April 2004, [2] in an effort to highlight the importance of financial literacy and teach citizens how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits. Math websites.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

It’s not about zeros and ones, or math and science. The Ask a Tech Teacher crew has come up with a foundational list of tips for teaching coding. If you are preparing to teach kids how to code, there are a few things you should know. That does not mean your student should have to teach themselves.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Recent public debates have focused a spotlight on K-12 math pathways. But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. Some parents received analog games designed to convey math skills, while others received a storybook.

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MARCH 13, 2020

The first World Maths Day was held on March 14, 2007 (also Pi Day), and has ever since been held occasionally on the 1st Wednesday in March. March 2020 World Maths Day is one of the world’s largest global educational events aimed at lifting numeracy standards in a fun and meaningful way. More on math. worldedugames.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Here are the most-read posts for the past month: Popular iPad-iPhone Swipes Choosing the Right College: Factors to Consider Beyond Rankings Graphing–9 Lesson Plans + 6 Online Resources How to Teach Dolch Words with Graphic Art Tools 6 Must-have Skills for New Tech Teachers Plus Two Extra Engineers Week Feb. How Will You Celebrate?

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APRIL 22, 2024

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today , and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Here are ten of the top Math-and-tech tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: C-STEM Studio — A Great Way to Blend Math and Robotics. 10 Tech Tools for Your Math Class. Zap Zap Math–Clever, Robust Math App for K-6. 32 Websites to Support Math Automaticity in K-5. 3 Websites to Gamify Your Math Class.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!” The brain makes sense of the world, and mathematics, through culture.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Create Simple Shapes in Excel 13 Tips to Solve Unusual Problems 4 Reasons to use Word Problems and 9 Online Resources How to Automate an MLA Heading Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day What’s a Backchannel and Is it Right For Your Class?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Young children have many different ability levels with math concepts. Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson, an expert on the topic, gives an overview of how to differentiate math instruction with younger students. . Episode 793 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Differentiate Math Instruction in the Elementary Classroom Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson.

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MAY 30, 2024

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice , CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. Here’s one educator’s story about how Stepping Stones made a big difference with his students’ math skills: How Magnolia ISD has ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math.

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