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This was a fun little blog about the differences between crosswords and Sudoku puzzles. I found it fascinating that there's such a universal love for Sudoku but a hatred for math.

This looks like a great model for teaching math discourse. Regularly incorporating an activity like this may also benefit EL students- they get to listen to other students using math language and try out their own language in a small group session.

Website with different interactive games as well as teacher curriculum

Learned helplessness can apply to both humans and animals. It is particularly applicable for our students, who may have LEARNED that they just cannot grasp math and/or science.

This is a great point, Connor. I wonder how students displaying learned helplessness behaviors compare to students we talked about this summer who choose not to learn. Could they be related? And how could we, as teachers, address this issue when it may be so ingrained in some of our older students?

"The researchers calculated how much of the variation in MCAS scores was due to the school that students attended. For MCAS scores in English, schools accounted for 24 percent of the variation, and they accounted for 34 percent of the math MCAS variation. However, the schools accounted for very little of the variation in fluid cognitive skills - less than 3 percent for all three skills combined."