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The Importance of Math Manipulatives: A Math Playground

Lab to Class

Perhaps books will have a diagram or teachers will attempt to explain a way to visualize a higher level math concept, but rarely do math textbooks and other math exercises for middle and high school explicitly focus on visualizations. The participants were given several math problems and asked to solve them using the fewest steps possible.

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What If We Stopped Calling Them Classrooms?

Edsurge

The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It Textbook publishers, for instance, have been making new products that they don’t call textbooks, and free-textbook advocates call what they make “open educational resources.”

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