Tonight we had a discussion of “5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions” (B&N, Amazon) on Twitter, and I wanted to post the Storify here. One caveat, one of the members, MrHodotNet is protected so he didn’t show up in the timeline. I copied and pasted his contributions at the end, but they are not [...]
Intensive Math Instruction & Double dose of Algebra 1 Success or failure in freshman math has long been thought to have a strong impact on subsequent high school outcomes. We study an intensive math instruction policy in which students scoring below average on an 8th grade exam were assigned in 9th grade to an algebra [...]
Look! Something Shiny! How Some Textbook Visuals can Hurt Learning A summary of a research article about how bad graphs make learning harder. Makes total sense to this AP teacher, actually. tags: ap stats teaching great graphing research Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica A free, opensource version of mathematica. Very interesting but [...]
“We’re Number Umpteenth!”: The myth of lagging U.S. schools An article by Alfie Kohn with research and links to reports that show the US system is not meeting the expectations of a “failed system”. Actually the reverse is true for the most part. tags: teacher bashing reform research MeTA musings: SBG is more than teach, [...]
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. tags: SBG assessment Mathy Ladies to Follow on Twitter | Roots of Unity, Scientific American Blog Network Some great math teachers [...]
Projects – Dropbox A teachers dropbox folder where they have stored and SHARED projects from elementary through high school. Lots of good items here to look and think about. tags: curriculum project based learning problem solving Assessing approximate distribution of data based on histogram – Cross Validated This is a great example of kind of [...]
My 100th post. So why not bash algebra? | Granted, and… Grant Wiggins and his take on Algebra 1, not as a set of content items but as a course. I agree with much of what he says here. Algebra 1 is disjointed, meaningless and very frustrating. Why? tags: teaching algebra ccss curriculum math My [...]
Listen as Albert Einstein Reads ‘The Common Language of Science’ (1941) | Open Culture An Actual recording of Albert Einstein reading one of his papers on “The Common Language of Science”. A most amazing sound and very wonderful to listen to and think about. tags: einstein physics math philosophy PCMI @ MathForum: Rubric for Implementing [...]
How I became a password cracker | Ars Technica Really, step by step instructions on how to check your own passwords and make sure you are not hackable. I wonder if there are some lessons here to be used in class. Can it be combined with http://xkcd.com/936/ tags: security advanced alg passwords SOME IDEAS ON COMMUNICATING [...]
Our Curriculum « Park School Math Park Mathematics has built a curriculum similar in nature to Exeter’s curriculum. I have requested copies based on the materials offered. Their public materials are wonderful. tags: math curriculum exeter Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Tweet