If you have taught your math students about perimeter and area, if you are ready to present them with an application challenge, and if they are into Pythonesque comedy (Do you know many middle schoolers who are not into the absurd?), consider showing this clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. After watching the clip, distribute […]
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Taking the SAT or ACT may not be the highlight of your senior year of high school, but it certainly ranks near the top of the priority list. Colleges will be shopping for freshmen with high scores, so it is imperative that you optimize your study time so you can get the most out of
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Here is a video project conceived and created by middle school students in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
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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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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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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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Math always came to me quite easily in grade school and middle school. I just never was able to find a way to actually motivate myself to learn it most of the time. The majority of the teachers I had over the years had us read straight from the textbook and copy down problems at
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Summer Slide. Brain Drain. Learning Leak. While it may sound like I’m describing a decaying water park, in reality these are terms used to explain the effect summer vacation has on young students and scholastic retention. If those terms don’t incite fear, they should. Students can lose more than two months of previous year math
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I was never a math person; I’ll put that out there first. The moment math became textbooks instead of cute little printed out worksheets, numbers just whirled above my head in a panic-stricken frenzy. Don’t get me wrong, I was never bad at math either. When I grasp a concept, it sticks. That’s the beauty
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Learning math was really hard for me growing up because I had a language barrier and I was a visual learner. The public school system moves the students through the subjects really fast and I was a quiet child unwilling to speak up when the lesson was going too fast for me. I’d take my
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