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The Role of Mathematics in Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Understanding the Significance of Mathematics Firstly, it’s essential to grasp why mathematics is so critical in our education system. High school often focuses on procedural understanding—how to solve problems with well-defined steps.

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Learning Artifacts

A Principal's Reflections

I routinely speak about the need for students to produce learning artifacts that demonstrate conceptual mastery. These are facts, concepts, processes, procedures, and principles (Clark & Chopeta, 2004). Knowledge often comes to us via transcribed content or artifacts, which is derived from other''s knowledge.

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Skills vs. Schema: Teaching Math How the Brain Learns

MIND Research Institute

For example, conventional teaching methods present math as a set of procedural components that, through continuous practice, will eventually lead to mastery. This blog post is designed to be interactive, so we encourage you to watch each video before moving on to the next section. The Neuroscience of Deeper Learning.

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How We Should be Teaching Math in Classrooms Today

The CoolCatTeacher

Denis Sheeran on episode 303 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. There are teachers who have said “I am fed up with doing it the same way” and they are going deep into understanding conceptually how to teach children in a new way. Listen Now.

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Resources for Problem Solving in Mathematics

techlearning

is an expert in mathematics education noted for building conceptual understanding of math to support procedural fluency. Her recent post at ORIGO Education’s blog, discusses problem solving and providing the right challenge at the right time. The right challenge at the right time helps students learn math.

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Summer Math Loss

Digital Promise

It’s likely that most of the resulting loss involves procedures, not general concepts, the researchers say. An incoming fifth grader may retain the conceptual idea that division means separating things out into equal groups, but it’s easy for her to forget the set of steps to solving a long division problem. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.

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Have you seen “What Works” for your schools? Amplify success with a video library of teaching

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And in this way, it’s conceptually possible to ask teachers to share videos to a larger group with broadened membership. Each video can also have supporting documents like lesson plans and other materials relevant to understanding the classroom context. We’ve made each organization’s library searchable by grade, subject, and tags.