Estimation
Want to help your students improve their sense of magnitude and estimation skills in real life contexts? Check out this …
Category Archives: Geometry Honors
Making Homework Meaningful
What do you think about the following? How do you think the shift described would affect your students’ learning? Please …
Proving Triangle Congruence
Click here for an activity from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Illuminations site that allows the user to explore …
Sample Assessment Items for the Common Core
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium released a new round of sample assessment items this week. Click here to try the …
Listening to student voices
Click here to read an excellent article from The Math Forum @ Drexel on encouraging discourse in math classes from …
Writing as Formative Assessment
When students write explanations of their work, give examples of concepts, and make up their own problems, teachers gain a …
Arithmogons
Here is a great site with more on the Arithmogons activity.
What works to improve problem solving
The What Works Clearinghouse produces reports showing evidence of effectiveness in education research. According to The What Works Clearinghouse report …
Reading Instruction for Word Problems
These thoughts come from an excellent article by professor of Mathematics Jerome Dancis. You can read the full article here. …
We are all mathematicians
In her book Math Exchanges: Guiding Young Mathematicians in Small Group Meetings, Kassia Omohundro Wedekind talks about creating the right …
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