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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve

The Hechinger Report

Michael Gallin is a math teacher at Kappa International High School in the Bronx. NEW YORK — Michael Gallin, a 34-year-old math teacher at KAPPA International High School in the Bronx, was winding his way through the cluttered aisles of his algebra classroom listening for sighs of frustration. Photo: Kyle Spencer/The Hechinger Report.

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8 Great Ways to Level Up Game Based Learning in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

College Professor Lee Sheldon (and former Star-Trek script writer) shares his method of gaming his college classroom in The Multiplayer Classroom. A student studying photosynthesis could play Reach for the Sun and manage a plant to help it produce as many seeds as possible before winter comes. Make Your Whole Class a Game Experience.

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High failure rates spur universities to overhaul math class

The Hechinger Report

A few years ago, administrators at San Diego State noticed high “D-F-W” (grades D and F, and withdraw) rates — 35 to 50 percent — for math courses, according to Michael O’Sullivan, chair of the math and statistics department. As of this year, San Diego State has implemented all seven pieces, said Michael O’Sullivan. It’s 9 a.m.

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The colleges that won’t die

The Hechinger Report

On a walk across the lonely quad on a cold winter afternoon, President Ed Wingenbach — students simply call him Ed — wore a knit cap with the college’s logo, a spiral oak, and its motto, “non satis scire,” which means “to know is not enough.” “Undefeated since 1970,” they say. Students sit inside the R.W. Kern Center.

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Exploring Poetry: A Writer’s Workshop Support

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Our 4th grade is currently reading poetry in their reading block and writing poetry during writer’s workshop. The Cuckoo’s Haiku by Michael J. Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman. Sijo & Haiku. Tap Dancing on the Roof by Linda Sue Park. Dogku by Andrew Clements. Guyku by Bob Raczka. Nature Poetry.

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The 2017 ProfHacker Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

As we have done in years past, many of the ProfHacker writers have gathered up a list of things that would make welcome gifts. Finally, winter for me means break out the warm socks. Michael Cox’s The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines is a good one for your local soccer fan.