This is a creative song/video (performed by some students) that teaches about slope. If you combine their lyrics with the actions by the students seen here: http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=102695
you'd have something even better!
This online library is designed to give data about a myriad of topics so
that teachers can use them for teaching statistics. I think it could be
helpful for designing story problems in general.
At Exeter, I learned that what you said was more important than what you knew. I learned that the louder you are, the better you are. I learned that there's only one way to learn anything, and that's to talk in circles until someone takes notice.
Are we preparing students for the real world when we give participation grades and focus on discussion in class, or are we discriminating against shy students and teaching kids how to talk without really saying anything?
A math education blog that contains some great musings on what it means to be a math teacher and how we can improve, including project and lesson ideas!
I have started this blog to document, revisit, and hopefully improve upon many of the approaches that have helped me the most over these years. Some of the postings are “mini-lectures” that most of my tutees have probably heard (cue the eye-rolls). Others are musings about the variations in how math seems to be understood or taught.
A very helpful math education blog that contains many good ideas on lesson approaches, resources, and encouragement for math teachers and learners alike.
Let us climb peaks by all means, because their beauty attracts us; not because others have failed, nor because the summits stand 28000 ft above the sea…Let us approach the peaks with humility, and through finding the way to them…learn to solve their problems.
Eric Shipton (1938)
A great math education blog that contains reflections on being a teacher and great resources to use in the classroom, including lesson ideas and book reviews!