Accelerate Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Research indicates that attitudes towards mathematics, especially at a young age, can significantly influence a child’s success in math. The good news is that there are simple strategies for introducing math concepts to play that can foster a positive attitude.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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Accelerate Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It's a powerful approach that blends the natural curiosity and playfulness of young children with foundational math concepts. Learning mathematics through play is a fundamental aspect of early childhood education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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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Middle Web

MAY 6, 2024

In math class students can be challenged to build both their character and their math proficiency if we adopt the roles of cultivator and guide. The post Math: the Perfect Place to Teach Character first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Educators Technology

JUNE 17, 2021

Math Whiteboard is an educational web tool I learned through Eric Curts. As its name indicates, Math Whiteboard offers a fully functional math work space for students, teachers, and anyone else.read more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 14, 2023

Two math celebrations are coming up on March 14th : Pi Day and World Maths Day Pi Day Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi). 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.

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

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. years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School. It's hard to teach math, period.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Middle Web

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mona Iehl’s students were shocked when she first asked them to grapple with math problems BEFORE they received instruction. The post How to Teach Students to Grapple with the Math first appeared on MiddleWeb. Then, to her surprise, “they got out the blocks, and drew pictures, and tried!”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Accelerate Learning

APRIL 3, 2024

Math manipulatives are a great way to make math more accessible for your students, especially if you know they may struggle with a new concept. While the more complex tools are useful with older students, you can introduce simple math manipulatives with your youngest learners, too.

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Accelerate Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

If you’re a curriculum leader or math teacher, you are probably facing the challenge of how to support multilingual learners in math class. These students are not only tackling math skills and learning to think through math problems like your other students but also doing it in a new language. You are not alone.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Accelerate Learning

MARCH 2, 2023

As teachers, you may feel like a broken record telling your students that they’ll use this math, whatever you’re currently teaching, in everyday life. Students will nod, shrug, and maybe even roll their eyes. To them, what’s the point in learning it when their calculator will do the work anyway?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

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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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated this phenomenon, impacting teaching and learning for all students, especially students from underserved communities. Yet, some math teachers, eager to help a struggling student at the first sight of frustration, deprive the learner of a productive struggle.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Shout out to my principal, Jonathan Dyal, and math teacher, Matthew Sheets, who work with me for their advice and thoughts as I crafted this post. Shout out to my principal, Jonathan Dyal, and math teacher, Matthew Sheets, who work with me for their advice and thoughts as I crafted this post.

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Educators Technology

JANUARY 13, 2022

SplashLearn (previously Splash Math) is a game-based platform that offers curriculum-aligned materials for teaching math to students in kindergarten to grade 5. Teachers can create classes and.read more.

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Scientix

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Game Based Learning (GBL) is, therefore, a lock pick to interest the class, capture students’ attention and allow them to understand the concepts of Maths and its procedures in an intuitive way: at a later time it will be possible to define the theoretical and abstract procedures that allow us to create models and solve problems.

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Middle Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Without good math fact recall, many students become discouraged about building math knowledge and solving equations. The post Use Music and Exercise to Teach Math Fluency first appeared on MiddleWeb. Kathleen Palmieri uses song and movement to engage fifth graders in computation fluency.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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