Estimation
Want to help your students improve their sense of magnitude and estimation skills in real life contexts? Check out this …
Category Archives: Grade 8 / Course 3
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 …
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 …
Multiplying Positive and Negative Numbers
It’s a simple rule: When multiplying two numbers, if the signs are the same, the product is positive, if the signs …
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 …
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