Mu Alpha Theta is the National High School and Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society. The link provides access to the top 8 student math videos for 2013.
From classroom management to working with parents, lesson planning to learning environments, this compilation of blogs, videos, and other resources provides an array of tips and advice for teachers just starting out.
The George Lucas Educational Foundation's education resource website Edutopia includes a links round-up of resources for new teachers, including blogs, lessons, videos, and more!
Geometry Playground will change the way you think about geometry. This traveling exhibition engages your hands, brain, and body in playful investigations of this most visible branch of math.
Wishing you could visit the Exploratorium in San Francisco but can't afford the trip? Tide yourself over with their amazing online math resources, such as the Geometry Playground, which really bring math to life on your computer!
Thinkfinity is the Verizon Foundation’s free online professional learning community, providing access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 — aligned to state standards and the common core.
Members of the Verizon Foundation's Thinkfinity online PLC can create and participate in groups to share all sorts of education resources, and there's quite a selection of math education groups to choose from via the search bar! It's free to join!
This summer, I met a principal who was recently named as the administrator of the year in her state. She was loved and adored by all, but she told me she was leaving the profession.
I screamed, "You can't leave us," and she quite bluntly replied, "Look, if I get an offer to lead a school system of orphans, I will be all over it, but I just can't deal with parents anymore; they are killing us."
Sometimes difficult parents can drive away the best of teachers, but so too can difficult teachers make life hard for parents. How can we best foster positive cooperation between educators and parents?
As I started reviewing statistics this month in preparation for a class I'm taking this summer, I came across this short gem! It gives some very straightforward directions for some basic (but important) statistics functions on the graphing calculator.
The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content.
Teachers can use or adapt our lessons across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to our Opinion questions, take our News Quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, try our Test Yourself questions, complete a Fill-In or read our Poetry Pairings.
The Learning Network is a blog maintained by the New York Times which includes daily lesson plans and "test yourself" questions across all subject areas which relate to current NY Times stories.
The Enigma Project from Cambridge University is a presentation by Dr James Grime about the fascinating history and mathematics of codes and code breaking. From the Greeks and Romans to the modern day, including a demonstration of a genuine World War II Enigma Machine.
The Enigma Machine used by the Nazis in WWII enciphered messages using a series of wires and rotors, and it took mathematicians Marian Rejewski and Alan Turing to decipher this complex coding machine.
Some folks in Silicon Valley and elsewhere say a conventional education can't possibly give kids with outsize talents what they need. Others, like Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School who teaches and advises startup companies, say dropping out to pursue a dream is like "buying a lottery ticket — that's how good your odds are here. More likely than not, you will become unemployed. For every success, there are 100,000 failures."
What can we do about those students who are considering dropping out because their knowledge and abilities are far beyond what their high school curriculum can offer?
This article is a great example that the focus shouldn't just be on the test scores, but that the effort the students' make is crucial. It shows that, once again, the input reflects in the output.