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It is 9:30 pm. A sixth-grader is curled around the pages of Harry Potter while his mother cajoles him to turn off the light. This youngster will apply his reading skills for the rest of his life. He will slay demons, travel to worlds real and...
I am sitting on an airplane with the movie Footloose playing in the background. True to my nature, watching the movie makes me think about math education. In the film, teens are unhappy about rules and expectations imposed on them. In the math...
Summer is not only a good time for students to review and continue learning, but it is also a prime time for teachers to plan, learn new teaching techniques, and collaborate. While summer is filled with national and local conferences if you...
A new study released this week by the RAND Corporation, “Making Summer Count: How Summer Programs Can Boost Student Learning” concludes that summer academic programs are beneficial. High quality programs can help close the...
Next week I will be off to the National Harbor in Washington DC for the annual Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 2011 convention, which I know will be filled with many interesting sessions, as well as opportunities to converse with teachers and...
As we begin to consider how to design and deliver instruction that meets the requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, it is critical that we not progress with business as usual. These new standards offer an opportunity...
The Standards of Mathematical Practice describe the “processes and proficiencies” that maximize students’ deep and lasting conceptual understanding in mathematics.
The first listed Standard of Mathematical Practice is “Make...
Today I visited Ms. Fleming’s third grade class at Lake Mary Preparatory School in Florida and had a wonderful time. The students have been working on fractions and invited me to work with them using the Conceptua Fractions tools and the ENO...
In the previous post I discussed how Steve Leinwand’s book; Accessible Mathematics: Ten Instructional Shifts That Raise Student Achievement could be making a difference in the math performance of students at a middle school I visited. I...
As I return home from a visit to a middle school, I cannot help but think of how the instructional shifts in Steve Leinwand’s book, "Accessible Mathematics: 10 Instructional Shifts That Raise Student Achievement," could make a...
