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4 reasons to rethink middle school math acceleration practices

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As the pandemic continues to impact another school year, a lot of focus has been on “accelerating learning,” which is about maintaining on-grade level instruction or infusing pre-requisite skills in the instruction so students can access on-grade level instruction. With College- and Career-Ready standards, the learning builds.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think its because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in. When would I ever use this?

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5 approaches that engage middle school students in STEM learning

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For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate. Teachers can guide students in designing their own models related to class lessons, from creating geometric shapes in math to building replicas of simple molecules in chemistry.

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How this middle school teacher gets students to challenge themselves in math

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When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School, thinks back on his own journey as a mathematician, he gives credit to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus. What’s your favorite lesson to teach and why? newsletters.

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Study asks: Can math teachers teach coding?

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How do students and teachers learn math and computer science, and how can we ease the coming shortage of computer science teachers? Fisler, Krishnamurthi, and Schanzer developed Bootstrap a decade ago; it has since been integrated into math and technology classes in school districts across the country.

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How a middle school teacher grew students’ math scores despite pandemic challenges

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As a senior at Indianapolis’ Ben Davis High School, Jacob Gregory enrolled in an Exploratory Teaching program. He thought of it as an easy way to leave school for a few hours, but it ended up sparking “an unknown interest in teaching,” he said. I never looked for ‘gaps’ or ‘learning loss.’

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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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Its a middle-grade math game in which aliens come to Earth to learn about decimal fractions. McLaren was preparing to replicate the study in schools in the fall with a different math game. It tried to address an existing blindspot in math teacher education. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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