by Diette Courrege Casey | Apr 29, 2013 | Articles
Connecting concepts to the geographic region in which students live is place-based math education. It’s a practice many rural schools have adopted. Place-based math education is easier to teach about than to put into practice in rural classrooms, according to a... by Margaret Smykla | Apr 21, 2013 | Articles
Accelerated math students at a Pennsylvania elementary school are playing The Stock Market Game and getting a feel for real-world investments. Students learn about math, economics and social studies, and it allows them to grow $100,000 in investments, researching,... by Diane Waters | Apr 11, 2013 | Articles
I really like the concept of math work stations. It is a simple concept that can be tailored to any situation (at any level of mathematics), and can be as elaborate or as simple as you like. The basic idea is to prepare one set of worksheets and place them at desks... by Griffin Rogers | Feb 12, 2013 | Articles
A guitar-playing teacher has found that songs about the distributive property and finding the slope of a line help his students understand math concepts a little better. “Anything to get kids interested in math is what we need to do,” Fleisher said. His... by Rebecca Jacobson | Jan 26, 2013 | Articles
A math lesson that relies on dance to teach number patterns is helping raise student scores and increase student engagement in a Virginia school district, reporter Rebecca Jacobson writes in this blog post. Educators are using training they received as part of a local...
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