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Assessments: The Collateral Damage of SBG | Mathy McMatherson
Absolutely terrific post on SBG and the impact SBG has on assessments and gradebooks. This post should be mandatory reading for anyone thinking about SBG.
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Mathy Ladies to Follow on Twitter | Roots of Unity, Scientific American Blog Network
Some great math teachers and mathematicians here.
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Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm | Which Way L.A.?
How can I use this in class? I see some good possibilities here.
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Drawing On Math: Global Math: Understanding by Design
An UbD project presented at the Global Math Department. There is a lot here in a surprisingly small amount of words. The ideas branch out into huge areas, however.
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for the love of learning: A short history of grading
Another article on the history of grading, including a person I have never heard of, “William Farish” who is credited with creating the grading scale to increase his pay as a tutor.
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A brief history of grades | Quantum Progress
Conversation at school has created some thoughts about the arbitrariness of grading scales. Some additional information to make you go hmmm, including a great infographic.
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Waffle Bytes: Performing a Mail Merge with Google Spreadsheets & Gmail
Using google mail and drive to do a mail merge? Impossible you say. Not so and this little tip is priceless for sending emails after using, say, drive forms to collect information.
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Math ‘Publishers’ Criteria’ Aim to Guide Common-Core Materials – Curriculum Matters – Education Week
Did you know there are revisions to the CCSS already? I didn’t until I read this. This article demands further reading, especially the links embedded.
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Leinwand gave a fantastic presentation at the NCTM13 conference. The slide deck is out there, and this is a recording of the presentation. Great listening and reading. Highly Recommended.
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One teachers curriculum materials for Geometry and Alg 2 used in standards based grading situation. A HUGE amount of materials shared here.
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25 Cool Android Sensor Apps that give your phone some unusual super powers [Freeware] |
First off, there is some seriously cool software here. The real question is how to leverage some of these for classroom use? Not sure yet, but I am working on it.
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ACT National Curriculum Survey | ACT
Some interesting results, such as 60%+ HS teachers think their learners are college ready, but college profs disagree.
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4 presentations from the NCTM Denver Annual Meeting. The presentation by Philip Treisman is especially good and is on equity in the classroom.
>How can I use this in class? I see some good possibilities here.
Glenn, I’m eager to see your thoughts on this. It seemed to me that it would work well for subjective fields, where the idea is to analyze, but there isn’t one right answer. As a math teacher pointed out in the comments, there will be a student who is sure of their answer in math, and others will believe them.