Common Core Blog with articles that discuss perspectives on the state standards as well as examples of successful lessons with plans and resources available for use!
Website with blog entries from several different blogging teachers with strategies and examples for promoting critical thinking among students. This link in particular discusses how to help students persevere when struggling in math.
A blog by Natalie Turbiville sharing her innovative approaches for teaching math at the secondary level. Suggestions by topic and ideas inspired by everyday life.
For high-school math, inborn talent is much less important than hard work, preparation, and self-confidence.
Thus, people’s belief that math ability can’t change becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
researchers at Oklahoma City who recently found that belief in inborn math ability may be responsible for much of the gender gap in mathematics.
Because the truth may be hard to believe, here is a set of links about some excellent books to convince you that most people can become smart in many ways, if they work hard enough:
The Art of Learning by Josh Weitzkin
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
We already venerate sports heroes who make up for lack of talent through persistence and grit; why should our educational culture be any different?
Collection of 50 websites, blogs, articles and more to help teachers achieve the goals of the Common Core State Standards and other related factors and/or issues.
An online location to educate students, parents, teachers, and beyond about internet safety. The home page hosts an on-going blog of article entries and separate pages for advice and guidance.
Math certainly is incomprehensible to many students, but from where I sit, poor teaching is often the reason. Math education is failing many of our students.
I have the utmost respect for people with math degrees who choose to teach in spite of the poor pay and discipline problems, but few people make that choice.
What if medical schools know that calculus is not needed in a doctor’s day-to-day practice, but that the skills she learns when taking it, including perseverance in the face of a difficult subject, make her better at understanding and responding to the flood of information she encounters in her work?
Intriguing response to an article questioning the purpose of current mathematics curriculum in k-12 education. The author points out the problem solving and perseverance skills and more gained from mathematics.
Common Core focused lessons for different grade levels and subjects! Unique real world examples for lessons that might increase student motivation and engagement!!