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

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

Creating learning situations that encourage transfer of knowledge Two vital lessons.1) Transfer is the bottom-line goal of all learning, not scripted behavior. 2) Transfer means that a learner can draw upon and apply from all of what was learned, as the situation warrants, not just do one move at a time in response to a prompt.

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.

"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."

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

Forty plus Math and Physics lesson Ideas

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.