Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

However, while some maths concepts, such as telling the time or using money, can have immediate relevance, others seem to have very little application to children’s daily lives. This year, I’ve been teaching students in Years 2-6 to create simple arcade games using Scratch. Making Maths Authentic. Cartesian Coordinates.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Here are 24 different games and structures you can use that will infuse laughter and joy into your classroom. when games are incorporated into learning. Why play games? For me, that’s a lot of art, creativity, and games. When leading a whole class game, students can bond as a classroom community.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2016

That’s the game. It’s the end game. It is the whole game. For example, we can’t teach via direct instruction, the concept which underpins decimal rounding or the formula for gradient. We teach fractions as distinct from decimals as distinct from percentages. Why Do We Need Conceptual Understanding?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Math centers or workstations where kids are all involved in different activities are a fundamental part of many elementary classrooms. How is a differentiated math partner game time different from math centers? Kids can pair up and play a game with a partner in either setup. Are the kids really learning?

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MindShift

JULY 1, 2018

But there are plenty of low-cost ways to keep kids learning through the summer without sitting them down to do worksheets or drilling them on a math app. Valorie Salimpoor is a trained neuroscientist who consults for the educational gaming company Cignition and has insight into helping kids who struggle with fractions.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Today, I’ve invited Meg from The Teacher Studio to share how she runs math workshop in her classroom. I really admire her approach to math instruction and she has done an AMAZING job outlining everything in this post. Over the years, I have had many people ask me to blog more about my math workshop.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And How ST Math will Prepare Your Students for Success As we’ve made it halfway through the 2022-23 school year, the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) test has been redesigned to align more closely with the classroom experience.

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Learning in Hand

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Some of the learning aims my school had for students in math were working with decimals and graphing data. In the end, the driving question should require students to learn skills and content in order to answer an interesting question. How does math influence art? I also wanted them to learn about spreadsheets.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

This site provides that creative angle that puts kids in that out of the box mode while exploring concepts in science, math, and engineering. Lesson Plans and resources for Art Integration – This Edutopia Article has a rich assortment of lessons and resources to integrate Art into curricular areas including Math, Science, and Design.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 26, 2016

The scripted math programs that require you to show a short video to the class about how to complete a math problem using a single solution and then assign problems that require 15 other methods to complete the homework drive me nuts! Through trial and error, I’ve discovered effective ways of connecting ST Math in the classroom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

That’s the argument made by Cathy O'Neil in her book “ Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.” O’Neil: When I turned 15, I decided I was going to become a math professor—I was at a math camp at the time, and it just seemed like the most glamorous thing I could imagine.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

But experts say as the economic crisis decimates state tax revenue and forces states to slash budgets, it’s more and more likely the nation won’t have enough teachers to staff schools even once reopening is safe. The massive layoffs predicted at the start of the pandemic haven’t happened — yet. It’s beyond concerning,” he said.

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