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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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Teaching Feels Like a Dead-End Job. Here’s How Schools Can Change That.

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Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself. On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side.

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12 Projects to Teach Digital Citizenship–by Grade

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No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren’t confined by the eight hours between school bells or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. This can tie into math class discussions on graphs and data. Education has changed. It didn’t work.

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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math

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A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. For a long time, I would have said I wasn’t a math person either.

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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

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That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series). But in the end, the results almost beggared belief, according to those at the college.

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

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During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. 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.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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