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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems. It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information.

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

The first activity I tried in class was a pre-writing workshop, speed-dating-style. If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. In their words: “[The activities] made me feel connected to the class because we laughed and worked together. It was something I could aspire to.

Lecturing 111
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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

The first activity I tried in class was a pre-writing workshop, speed-dating-style. If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. In their words: “[The activities] made me feel connected to the class because we laughed and worked together. It was something I could aspire to.

Lecturing 110
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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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use tech-empowered learning tools and computational environments, take active roles of designers and builders; and do it in a social setting, with helpful mentors and coaches, or over networks. That he is widely considered the father of a movement that espouses play and games as an integral part of learning—any learning—may seem incongruous.

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