Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...
Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow ...
In Dan Goldfield’s high school math class, students don’t learn about large numbers by staring at a whiteboard and copying zeros. They go to a beach and count grains of sand. “Some of them start by ...
Louisiana educators can use i-Ready Classroom Mathematics, which “exemplifies quality” and “meets all non-negotiable criteria and scored the best possible on all indicators of superior quality” ...
Rigorous, differentiated, student-centered classrooms. For many educators, that’s the ideal. The trick is actually creating such classrooms, much less doing the work well. And that challenge has never ...
Even the best math teachers have had students who ace the chapter tests just to go on and struggle with that same content on the final exam—or students who have a hard time grasping more advanced ...
In 2016 Catherine Attard received funding from Slate Science, who produce the Matific digital resources. Many parents are beginning to demand less technology use in the primary classroom due to the ...