Category: math
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No Right Answers in a Math Classroom?
A Math Class Where There Are No Right Answers? I have been thinking a lot about right answers this week. If there was no need to get a right answer in math class, how would this change the culture of the classroom? There are a lot of math tasks where the focus is not on…
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Transforming Traditional Math Problems into Groupwork
Transforming Procedural Math This week, I headed out to Seattle with two of my colleagues to think about how we might be able to re-culture math for higher achievement. The message and the research is loud and clear that the number one thing that increases math achievement is one’s belief that they can do it.…
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Learning the Hard Way & The Common Core Standards
I have been actively implementing the English language arts common core standards for three years while at the same time learning and implementing research based strategies to increase growth mindset in our students. I recently completed a very close study of both the math and English standards while I was simultaneously teaching a course on…