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11 Virtual Tools for the Math Classroom
Edutopia blogger Monica Burns presents a wealth of iPad apps to transform daily math lessons for elementary students. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathycassidy/7180575921/ More and more classrooms are...
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Walking the Walk: An Educator's Perspective from All Views
Guest blogger Lori Desautels decides to walk the walk of her pre-service and graduate students at Marian University's School of Education as she returns to public school and co-teaches a...
View Article9 Strategies for Motivating Students in Mathematics
Guest blogger Alfred Posamentier, Dean of Mercy College's School of Education, presents nine intrinsic motivation strategies for engaging students in secondary math classes. Motivating students to be...
View ArticleBrain-Compatible Study Strategies
Guest blogger Lori Desautels details a set of brain-compatible study strategies for fifth graders, although these methods could be adapted for use at any age. Driving my 15-year-old daughter home from...
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5 Open Education Resources for K-5 Common Core Math
Of all the many Common Core lesson plan sources on the Web, blogger Matt Davis has chosen a few of the best that are easy to use and extremely useful....
View ArticleGrowth Mindset and the Common Core Math Standards
Guest blogger Cindy Bryant, moderator of the LearnBop PLC, illustrates how the growth mindset aligns with the Common Core Standards for math. For many years, intelligence was thought to be static...
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Ownership and Agency Will Propel STEM Learning
Edutopia blogger Matt Levinson presents evidence, from disappointing math and science assessment scores to Steve Wozniak's groundbreaking creativity, that the best way forward in STEM learning is by...
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Takeaways from Math Methods: How Will You Teach Effectively?
Guest blogger Jennifer Bay-Williams, educator and author, shares three critical ideas that she wants her preservice math teachers to learn, each connected with a basic understanding of how their...
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Android Apps: Math, ELA and Video Streaming
Edutopia blogger Monica Burns, recognizing that not all mobile users have iPhones, focuses on attention-grabbing Android apps for elementary and middle grades math and ELA, along with resources for...
View ArticleChallenge Is Constant: The Caterpillar Game and Real-World Math
Guest blogger Alicia Iannucci, a math teacher at Quest to Learn, explains Caterpillar, a game she developed to teach her sixth graders about probability and statistics, as well as the fun real-world...
View Article"Why Do We Need to Learn This?"
Guest blogger Dr. Allen Mendler shares three methods for connecting students with the relevance of what they're learning: getting them to accept the unknown, getting them to laugh, and connecting the...
View ArticleCommon Core in Action: Screencasting in the Fourth Grade Math Classroom
Edutopia blogger Monica Burns suggests three screencasting apps as a way to develop the 21st century skill of communicating clearly while helping fourth graders hit their Common Core Math Standard....
View ArticleCelebrate Pi Day: Seven Classroom Resources for Pi Learning
Edutopia blogger Matt Davis rounds up some of Edutopia's favorite Pi Day resources for teachers. Happy 3.14159265358979323846264 Day! That's right, Pi Day is coming on 3/14, and the annual celebration...
View Article10 Apps for Math Fluency
Edutopia blogger Monica Burns reviews ten apps, many available for both iOS and Android, that encourage math fluency by engaging elementary students with games to amuse as well as teach. There are so...
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Project-Based Learning and the Common Core: Resource Roundup
Edutopia's curated compilation of online resources for aligning project-based learning with the Common Core State Standards. Edutopia's curated compilation of online resources for aligning...
View ArticleThe Case for Pi: Why We Shouldn't Always Teach Math in Absolutes
Edutopia blogger and math teacher Jose Vilson confesses that he relishes the irrational - improper fractions, odd numbers, radicals and the notorious pi - because it serves to hook students into the...
View ArticleElementary Financial Literacy: Lesson Ideas and Resources
Guest blogger Brian Page, a high school economics teacher, presents three resources for teaching financial literacy to elementary students, including websites by the President's Advisory Council on...
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Revolution, Responsibility and Football: Teaching Financial Literacy to...
: In the second installment of this series, guest blogger Brian Page offers three more financial literacy resources, this time focusing on an educational site and two online games to engage middle...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy in High School: Necessary and Relevant
In the third installment of this series, guest blogger Brian Page shares three principles he applies when teaching financial literacy to high school students, and presents additional lesson plans and...
View ArticlePBL and STEAM Education: A Natural Fit
Edutopia blogger Andrew Miller looks at the enhanced possibilities of using 21st century skills to engage students with real-world challenges through combining the pedagogical model of PBL with the...
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A Proposition for Handling Remainders Better - Please!
Edutopia blogger Jose Vilson says we're not doing math doing students any favors by sweeping remainders under the rug at the end of a division problem. He proposes three ways of examining what that...
View ArticleMaximizing Profit: The PBL Classroom Without PBL
Danielle Lynch of Sammamish High School offers a glimpse of the 21st century skills that remain on display in her problem-based learning math classroom even when students aren't specifically tasked...
View ArticleGames in the Mathematics Classrooms: There’s an App for That!
Educational app developer and guest blogger Patrick Feeney looks at what makes a good math gaming app and lists some of his favorite puzzles that engage students while teaching them effectively. Last...
View ArticleDeveloping a Mathematics Teacher Knowledge Framework
Sarah Fuentes and J. Matt Switzer, assistant professors of math education, show the building blocks of the teacher knowledge framework and share preservice teachers' reflections on learning to...
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STEM to STEAM: Resource Roundup
Whether you are looking for resources related to integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or infusing arts, design, and humanities to transform STEM into STEAM, this curated...
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