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

"MathleteBlogs.com is a resource for mathematics teachers to connect their math students with peers from around the globe to enhance their mathematical learning experience from K-12."

"Computer science skills are becoming more and more important to success in today's economy, and this importance is highlighted during the annual Hour of Code. A number of resources on Code.org and other sites can help students of all ages and skill levels develop coding skills."

Census at School is a free, web-based classroom project that engages primary and secondary school students

This originally came from Joe. Nice little article on teaching reasoning rather symbol shunting. Uses a study that indicates that most students don't know what an equal sign means (which is certainly my experience) to make its point.

The Rational Number project is an ongoing research project investigation student learning and teacher enhancement. LInks to research on group page.

"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.

3 Responses to a students favorite question " Why do I need this"...

"Increasing students' critical thinking is a major objective of math tasks, the task-based approach to math instruction."

This article confirms the importance of the transition process to new programs. Even when the new program has great advantages, it is important to prepare both students and parents for the change and challenges found in "deeper thinking" processes.

"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 question about squares to get students thinking (and interpreting questions carefully) From Millionaire

"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. "

Mobile devices can also be used to help student practice foundational math skills and build their math fluency.

Sound advice for parents and students using tutors.

Some apps to explore... for the ipad savvy among us.