What Students Remember
Matt As another school year comes to a close, I always ask my students a simple question: What helped you learn the most…
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Reimagining Math Class: How Antiracist Practices Are Changing the Game for Students of Color
By Matthew Rector If you’ve ever looked around your math classroom and wondered why some students seem to disengage the moment numbers…
Conundrums: Non Curricular Bell Work
Conundrums: Non Curricular Bell Work Are you ready to start your class with Bell Work that activates student thinking, builds connections and…
Team Building Tuesday: Getting Started
(5-min Non-curricular tasks that motivate, activate and engage Math students) If you want to read the research on why these are effective…
Introducing Students to the Three Read
I developed the three read (self) assessment system prior to COVID and as great as it turned out to be at helping…
The Art of Teaching
I talk and think a lot about our art. As a scientist I also think and write a lot about data and…
Mindset Monday: Building a Better Team
Google’s Project Aristotle Building a Better Team “Working in a team is cheating!” “I don’t like working with other people because I…
How I assign Desmos Activities in Google Classroom
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Making Lemonade: Conundrums
The last year has thrown us a lot of lemons!!! Fortunately, for our students, we dedicated professional math teachers have risen to…
Assessments That Move Knowledge Forward in the DL
During distance learning (DL), I have decided to stop giving tests whose sole purpose was to rank and judge students. Experience has…