Rational Numbers in Middle School Math
Middle school students should be developing a sound grasp of rational number concepts. They often need support when their whole …
Category Archives: Grade 6 / Course 1
Estimation
Want to help your students improve their sense of magnitude and estimation skills in real life contexts? Check out this …
Variables, Expressions, and Equations
Here’s a sample activity that provides a context students love – candy! – and helps them understand how to define …
Making Homework Meaningful
What do you think about the following? How do you think the shift described would affect your students’ learning? Please …
Primes and Composites, Factorization, GCF and LCM
In order to reason successfully with fractions, students need to understand the relationships between numbers and their factors and multiples. …
Modeling word problems with Thinking Blocks
Thinking Blocks is a website designed to help students solve math word problems accurately and efficiently using models. The models provide …
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 …
Math Games
Looking for fun math games that support learning? Click here for games from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Click …
Singapore Math Strategies
Before addressing specific strategies, it is instructive to read about Singapore’s rationale for school mathematics, as expressed in the syllabus …
Listening to student voices
Click here to read an excellent article from The Math Forum @ Drexel on encouraging discourse in math classes from …
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