Over the summer I came across that "viral" math problem from China that asked 5th graders, "A captain has 25 sheep and 10 goats on his ship, how...
In my experience teaching public school, your curriculum is what every teacher gets. That is, the standards you have to teach and a basic time...
I see a lot of people saying what to do, but I don't see much of a reason why. So hopefully this will clear things up and it'll be easy for anyone...
The thing that had the highest impact in my classroom (I teach math) to get the students to do what's needed to be done for all of them to learn...
I'm glad I posted this and got your feedback. What has pushed me to consider this sort of strategy is last semester the school gave me a class to...
This applies to grade 6-8. So I was taught that when dealing with students you never do anything to embarrass them or make them feel bad. Instead...
I had my students go out to the track and we calculated how fast we could all run by running/jogging 100 meter dash and found our average speed....
Start calling home. For 2 weeks, take an hour to call parents and tell them what their children are doing. As soon as a student has a teacher call...
You could try reminding them that the negative sign is just short hand for the word opposite. So if you have positive numbers, it's like you are...
For what it's worth, I taught a high school pre-calculus class for a couple years and then moved to middle school math because many of my students...
Mine is going to be built around positivitity. It sounds vague at first but you'll get the idea in a second. I'm going to write a poster that...
