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Erik Yates

They Might Be Giants - Zeroes (official video) - YouTube - 4 views

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    My all-time favorite band produced a CD full of great songs about math. Enjoy on your own, with your kids, or with your students!
Erik Yates

You Must Always (May) Show Your Work - Coach G's Teaching Tips - Education Week Teacher - 5 views

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    Do you ask your students to show their work? Should they? This article has an interesting perspective.
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    I ask them too because I teach alg, these problems become more complicated as the year moves on and they need to write their steps down because there are multiple steps. The ones that have been doing it in their heads for years suddenly cant seem to do that anymore and find themselves in a tricky situation because they don't know how to show their work.
Erik Yates

BBC - Future - Want to learn quicker? Use your body - 0 views

  • The Kinect sensor, meanwhile, is being used in studies to help children learn to more accurately map numbers onto physical space – a simple skill but one that is fundamental to our understanding of mathematics. Most people know, for instance, to place the number 50 exactly midway along a line marked “0” at one end and “100” at the other. Researchers at Eberhard Karls University in Tuebingen, Germany, found that seven-year-olds can place numbers along such a line more accurately if they physically walk the line on the floor – with their motion captured and analysed by the Kinect sensor – than if they use a mouse to interact with a computer screen representation of the line
Erik Yates

The Neuroscience Behind Stress and Learning | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Are your students stressed-out about learning? This article discusses how students learn better when content and activities are relevant to their lives. Very good Edutopia article.
Erik Yates

Math Workshop Adventures - 3 views

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    This blog entry from "Math Workshop Adventures" has a lot of information about how the teachers approached Common Core standards related to fractions in third grade. The anchor charts are a great visual that you can create with your students 'on the carpet.'
Erik Yates

Proportions Trail - YouTube - 3 views

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    Need a great activity to get your students working on problems while moving about the room? This middle school math activity is explained in a short video, but while the topic is math, you can adapt the exercise to other topics too!
Erik Yates

Ohio Resource Center > for Mathematics Educators > Problem Corner - 4 views

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    Ohio's Online Resource Center has a very good collection of inquiry-oriented, open-ended math questions that you can choose based upon grade level and topic! The range is from third grade to high school, so finding a quality question that meets your students' needs is easy!
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