artwork by Steve Heath After the blog post, My Last Math Class, was re-tweeted many times last week, I realized that making math relevant for our students is important to a lot of people. If that’s the case, then the Rigor/Relevance Framework should be of interest to our readers.
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Though we are pleased by how many good reviews Elevated Math has received this summer, we thought this one was worth mentioning, and not just because the analysis is complimentary of our app. TekGadg, the reviewer, took the time to create two videos. One we pasted above and shows the Elevated Math app and how
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In a few months, I am beginning my liberal arts education. According to Merriam-Webster, a liberal arts education consists of “college or university studies (as language, philosophy, literature, abstract science) intended to provide chiefly general knowledge and to develop general intellectual capacities (as reason and judgment) as opposed to professional or vocational skills”. In other
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First in the list of things that students say they want from education, according to eSchool News, is “real-world application and relevancy.” When it comes to math education finding these real-world examples seems more of a challenge. I tried myself to find some, was stumped, and had to go back through the Elevated Math lessons
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photography by JD Hancock Play along with me just for a moment. Be honest now. When I say the word “scientist,” what is the first image that comes to mind? Write down a few words that describe that image. Are you finished? When you are, read the following account of what happened at a recent
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In the past few weeks I’ve been reading what others have been saying about Khan Academy and decided to watch some of the videos. Since I had forgotten about limits in calculus, I watched a video about that. I promptly fell asleep. His voice is pleasant enough, but I’m a visual person I need more
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I’ve been doing a lot of reading this summer, and I’ve come across a few books in the past few months that I think every math educator should read. A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart “I don’t see how it’s doing society any good to have its members walking around with vague memories of
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“Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have,” as stated by the Wizard from Oz in 1939. According to him, a Th.D. diploma (Doctor of Thinkology) is
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It has often been said that math is a language all to itself, that it is the universal language because speakers of other languages share it. Okay. I’ll accept that adage. And though I believe it, I still have questions as to how this plays out in a classroom, in particular an ESL classroom where
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Yesterday, David Sirota published an article in Salon entitled “How Finland became an education leader.” The article is based on an interview he had with Harvard researcher, Tony Wagner, who narrates a new documentary called, “The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World’s Most Surprising School System.” I’ve never been to Finland. I want to go. But
