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Here is a list of people who blog about mathematics from David Wees (as a Google Reader bundle), or mathematics education. It is incomplete... but will get updated periodically.

Support for students who have gaps from the past. Tutoring as a option.

The Story of Deborah Loewenberg Ball - an extraordinary Math educator and her path to teaching excellence through life long learning.

Test your Math and geography skills along the way.

A interesting article discussing Montessori methods, problem solving, brain science and historical sequence of teaching mathematics.

"the more I questioned the wisdom of this rigid requirement. And eventually my message for students changed from you must show your work to you may show your work. Here's why." The goal of showing work is to understand thinking ... requiring showing work may hinder mathematical thinking by emphasizing computation.

"Bootstrap, (has) its goal of teaching a basic math curriculum - algebra - while students also learn about computer coding,"

Prompts for finding out why student make mistakes on word problems.

A list of manipulative for all sorts of purposes / lessons/ problem solving.

A practical list of Math teaching/learning methods that embrace inquiry for deep understanding.

"The famous Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget stated: "to understand is to invent", highlighting the active nature of the learner. The above discussion provides an outline of the theoretical foundation on which Inquiry-Based Learning rests. Furthermore, it provides a summary of the mounting evidence that students who are given the opportunity to learn mathematics through inquiry develop better strategic competence and deeper conceptual understanding of mathematics. "

A discussion of practices that help make a flipped classroom work.