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The Making of ST Math's New Line Plot Games

MIND Research Institute

Also, for any grade level, the relevant stats activities are often a combination of different math activities. Even something simple, like building a line plot of a simple bell curve, can consist of making dozens of measurements and plotting them all as points over a number line. A Quick Refresher on Line Plots.

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24 classroom games to make student learning FUN

The Cornerstone for Teachers

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? When testing and data seem to rule over the day-to-day life of a teacher, we need to remember what power we do have to create the classroom we want.

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Relevant Math For Students’ Lives: Creating Context With Social Justice Issues

MindShift

Perhaps one of the most common questions teachers hear from students who struggle with math is, “When will I ever need this in the real world?” But when educators think creatively about helping students see the applications of math in the real world, it provides a unique point of entry and interest into a subject that many kids may dislike.

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What Do Sixth Graders Say About Learning With Games? It Works

MindShift

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Each student had been cast for a role-playing game either as a honeybee sent out from the hive or as a plant. And designing good games is no easy task.

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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

How did you organize the rooms? Towana Pierre-Floyd, principal of Frederick A. Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Thank God we spent the last 20 years paying a dozen middle-aged white men to rehash the same articles on how political correctness on campus is the true threat to free speech [link] — Dara Very Rude Elevator Screamers Kaye (@DaraKaye) October 29, 2018. Only one reason to do that: ED's going to reopen and expand the experiment.