Category: math
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Conditions, Preexisting Conditions, and Treatment
Every now and then you come to one of those all-stop, let’s-just-look-at-this-for-a-while documents. This from the Carnegie Foundation is one of those artifacts. It’s pretty lengthy, and there are lots of words. Still, let’s just look at it for a while, shall we? (You’ll probably need to open it up in another window or download…
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A Critical Ingredient Missing From My Math Blogging
Recently I came to a convicting realization recently with the help of a friend. If I’m painting with a broad brush, I’d suggest that effective math classrooms have three things in place: Quality mathematical tasks Effective facilitation Social and emotional safety I’m not sure if there’s a rank-order of the importance of these ingredients to…
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My session slides for #pcsceQuip13: Designing Mathematical Tasks
In my session we spent some time doing a Visible Thinking Routine around 5 mathematical tasks, then did a run through of some quick ways to improve or attempt a mathematical task. Here are links to some of the tasks we looked at, and additional ones I provided as models for participants. Literature NCTM Research…
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Accuracy vs. Understanding
Let’s say you’re teaching a Grade 8 or Freshman level class. Algebra 1-ish. You’ve got some data here. x y 1 3 2 5 4 10 6 10 8 12 10 17 You want to show how data may be modeled as an equation. We could go about this two ways. We could follow some…
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Here are your Algebra 1 and Geometry Problem Based Learning curriculum maps.
Yes, you can do wall-to-wall PrBL. Yes, you can align your PrBL curriculum to Common Core standards. Yes, you can do it all with the help and goodwill of the math twitterblogosphere. Note that these are just the tasks. They are not the facilitation notes, the scaffolding, the assessment. Just the tasks and problems provided…
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Quick math blog reading lifehack: syncing Flipboard and Google Reader
One of the reasons I solicited everyone’s input on the 2012 Math Blogging Retrospectus was because I have such a problem keeping up with the steady stream of quality math blogging that gets posted every day. While I wouldn’t say I’ve entirely solved the problem, I do have a quick little lifehack I’d like to…
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Shorter is better: is shorter better?
Quick post for today. Last night I created my first video for 101qs.com. It wasn’t until after I had edited it and got it uploaded to Vimeo that I realized that in order to submit to 101qs it must be shorter than a minute. So I did some deep cuts and made a minute-long version.…
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This holiday season, won’t you give the gift of Math Ed? (Specifically, give it to me?)
Like many of you, I suspect, I learn more and am edified more by the social media math education community than that of academia and your typical district instructional coaching. Also like many of you, I suspect, I’m WAY behind on my math ed blog reading. Much of that is because it just slips through…
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Preparing Kids for College (A Prologue): Kids should go to college.
If you’ll permit me this space, I need to work out some things. I’ve been struggling a bit with the whole college readiness question, in particular the simple question: what’s the best way to prepare kids for college level work? But before I dig into that in later parts, I need to publicly own my world…
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