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Kim Ammons

The Education Continuum WARNER CHILCOTTED - YouTube - 0 views

  • In which John explains the education continuum and why math and literature both help us understand the universe in surprisingly similar ways.
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    Famous author John Green explains how math and literature are not actually so different from each other, because they both have the same end goal of helping us to understand our place in the universe.  "Math people, let me tell you that imaginary stories can be every bit as intellectually engaging as imaginary numbers, and literature people, I am here to tell you that set theory is every bit as fascinating and moving and beautiful as The Great Gatsby."
Shane Brewer

To 'Frustrated Parent': Understanding and Fluency Are Both Important - Learning Deeply ... - 3 views

  • An example of an outdated vision is a Facebook post that has gone viral. In it, Jack Severt, the father of a second grader in Cary, North Carolina, expressed his exasperation at a mathematics problem his son brought home.
  • I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics [sic] Engineering which included extensive study in differential equations and other higher math applications. Even I cannot explain the Common Core mathematics
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    The importance of fluency and understanding
anonymous

Word Walls | Classroom Strategies | Reading Rockets - 0 views

  • Number sense, concepts, and operations word wall The purpose of the mathematics word wall is to identify words and phrases that students need to understand and use so as to make good progress in mathematics. Mathematical language is crucial to children's development of thinking. If students do not have the vocabulary to talk about math concepts and skills, they cannot make progress in understanding these areas of mathematical knowledge. They need to be familiar with mathematical vocabulary and mathematical terms to understand written and spoken instructions. See math word wall resources >
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      Click the link to access some examples of math words for a word wall. They have inspired me to find creative ways to display higher level math vocab such as "line of symmetry" and "slope".
Sheri Bradshaw

Degrees in a Circle - Why 360? | MathFour - 0 views

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    Activity to facilitate further understanding of circles
Jeff Long

Youtube Video Showing comparison volumes of a cube and Pyramid - 0 views

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    Short video showing the relative volumes of a square pyramid and a cube with the same dimensions. Allows students to understand the origin of the volume formula for square pyramids.
Jeff Long

Applet for checking boolean logic using Venn diagrams - 0 views

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    A nice applet from the National Library of Virtual Manipulates allows students to test their understand of boolean logic using Venn diagrams.
anonymous

Proofs from The Book - The most elegant theorems and proofs in school mathematics. - 0 views

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    Provides a weekly proof that high school students can understand
Carmelino Liau

LEARNINGlover.com - 0 views

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    A collection of scripts designed to help students understand and learn mathematical concepts.
Carmelino Liau

Interactive Mathematics Activities - 0 views

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    A collection of math related topics from basic arithmetic to geometry and combinatorics. Presents the concepts in an easy to understand way, also provides applets demonstrating concepts.
Carmelino Liau

IntuitiveMath - YouTube - 0 views

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    A Youtube series that explains mathematics in a way that is intuitive and easy to understand for students.
megdangerfield

FACTORING TRINOMIALS - BATTLESHIP PARTNER ACTIVITY! - TeachersPayTeachers.com - 0 views

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    A fun game for grades 7 - 10 to help understand Factoring Trinomials.
Katie Dambrink

Test yourself - Exponents - 0 views

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    Fun quiz to test knowledge of exponents
apejones

Crazy Teaching - Just doing what makes sense. - 2 views

shared by apejones on 27 May 15 - No Cached
Shane Brewer liked it
  • 1. Tardy passes.  The picture below represents all of the tardy passes I have received all semester, along with passes to the nurse and passes to assistant principals for discipline.  That stack represents a lot of lost learning time, especially when you realize that these passes are written for a lot of the same students over and over again.  If learning was really valued, there would be preventative action taken rather then just letting students be late and lose valuable learning time.
  • 2. Announcements during class time.  For the first four years of my teaching career, I worked in a district where it was in the contract that no announcements could be made during class time other than regularly scheduled announcements during a set period.  Consequently I started teaching not knowing the agony of having my class interrupted with announcements about homecoming, meetings, or sports cancellations, and then having student attention diverted to those topics rather than what they are supposed to learn.  I always hear about cell phones being a distraction to students, but random announcements that could have waited until another time (or be made in another way) during a class can be just as much of a distraction from the real reason students are in the building. 3. Letting students talk among themselves for the last 5 minutes of class.  I am known as the strict teacher because I believe in bell-to-bell instruction.  I only have 50 minutes a day to cause understanding in my students, and I want to use all of that time.  Some students and some teachers find this unreasonable of me.4. Pulling students out of class for things that are non-learning related.  This school year alone I had students pulled out of class to talk about sports participation opportunities and to do something for an extra-curricular activity that was supposed to be done after school.  I even had a student pulled out of my class during a test because another teacher simply demanded it.  Now, I'm not against sports or extra-curricular activities; I feel they are a valuable part of a student's school experience.  It's when they start to take priority over learning that I have a problem.
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    I like this girl, even if she's not a math teacher she is funny and I'll probably get some good teaching ideas from her.
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    Someone else bookmarked this, but I want it in my list.  Excellent resource for classroom setup and management.
mollygrace89

Geometry - 0 views

  • Geometry is all about shapes and their properties.
  • Why do we do Geometry? To discover patterns, find areas, volumes, lengths and angles, and better understand the world around us.
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    Nice simple summaries on geometric concepts
sdoviatt

Cool Math - free online cool math lessons, cool math games & apps, fun math activities,... - 0 views

shared by sdoviatt on 18 May 13 - Cached
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    A collection of math lessons, games, and applets that are aimed at helping students better understand mathematics.
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