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In Love with Space? Here are Great Websites to Take You There

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This realistic webtool is an excellent scaffold for MS and HS students connecting STEM to their curiosity and excitement about space. Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. Movement in space is slow and requires patience and precision.

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Core Tech for Math Common Core Standards #ISTE2014

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In this post, my focus is sharing some of the math resources that I heard about during "Core technologies for the Common Core" by Kyle Brumbaugh and Elizabeth Calhoon at #ISTE2014. More resources Khan Academy : There are online tutorial videos as well as skill and drill exercises that provides students with feedback.

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Part 4: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Math

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to number four in a series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources for STEM education. I hope you enjoyed my thoughts of STEM being a Verb a few posts back. You will also find posts filled with resources including Science , Technology , and Engineering in STEM. Math STEM Resources.

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8 Ways to Use Minecraft in Your Classroom (Now That it’s Free)

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If that sounds a lot like Common Core’s Standards for Mathematical Practice, it’s because it is. Popular digital storytelling tools integrate a variety of multimedia in the storytelling exercise. To be effective in Minecraft worlds requires science, technology, engineering, and math — or STEM.

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Blending Art and Algorithms, Desmos Sets Out to Reimagine Math Curriculum

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Nugent says the versatility of the tool, and the open-endedness of the exercises, has helped engage students who otherwise didn’t think they liked math. “It That means more exercises that allow for open-ended answers, and less abstract questions that simply ask one to “solve for x ,” says Meyer. It’s not just rote learning.”

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Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

The Hechinger Report

She showed the students a video to review the math, then sent them scattering to different tables to practice the exercises they’d found challenging. “We He partly blamed the 2010 Common Core requirements, which had toughened middle school math at all levels and raised the cost of moving too quickly.

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High failure rates spur universities to overhaul math class

The Hechinger Report

The report called Americans’ struggle with math “the most significant barrier” to finishing a degree in both STEM and non-STEM fields. There’s going to be a need for a million more STEM graduates in the next decade than we’re currently producing,” said Chris Rasmussen, professor of mathematics education at San Diego State. “I