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The flipped classroom: in elementary school, too?
High school chemistry teachers, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams have been given credit for inventing the flipped classroom, but they don’t make that claim. The teachers credit Maureen Lage, Glenn...
View ArticleThe Ideal Level of Learning Challenge
Families typically seek out my services when their child is experiencing difficulty or stress at school. In many instances, the children have learning differences that impact how they learn. Students...
View ArticleRtI Interventions for Math
Anyone well versed in Response to Intervention (RtI)for math is familiar with the recommendations of the Institute for Education Sciences’ “What Works” report, “Assisting Students Struggling with...
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Math strategies for ELL students
Whether or not budgets are shrinking, schools still need to support the increasing number of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the skills acquisition they need to succeed in math. ELLs are the...
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The Nation’s 2013 NAEP Math Report Card: Disappointing and showing major gaps...
Only 26 percent of U.S. 12th Grade students are proficient in math, according to eagerly awaited release of the 2013 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Report, released on May 7. It’s the...
View ArticleKids can love Middle School Math: Vander Ark, Hudson & Mead
Students can learn to love math in their middle school years. What it takes is helping kids connect with math in a real-world way and understanding their individual and group dynamics. Watch Tom...
View ArticleWhen Futuristic EdTech Inventions Don’t Improve Learning
The Gizmodo article, 15 Technologies That Were Supposed to Change Education Forever is a collection of revealing and humorous inventions that people imagined could or would impact learning in “the...
View ArticleSubject-Centered Classrooms Can Morph Into Integrated-Content Classrooms
Formal education in most elementary classrooms is based on an organizational system that focuses on content subjects. Posted in classrooms is a calendar of the day: 8:30–9:30 Reading, 9:30–10:30 Math,...
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Teacher Tool of the Month – Integer Operations
The interactive white board Teacher Tool for this lesson is available on our website under Resources www.dreambox.com/teachertools. Students use substitution to create equations involving...
View ArticleCreating My Dream Lessons…Digitally.
While creating math lessons for middle school, I’ve been reminded of a game I used to play when I was in eighth grade. My math teacher, Mr. W, would start by giving us a target number (such as 27), and...
View ArticleThe Math Barrier: An Unfortunate Reality
When you’re a math major in college like I was, you can be guaranteed at least two things. First, many people will assume you’re a human calculator because they’ll ask you to make outrageous...
View ArticleForget “academics” for middle school. Focus on engagement and authenticity.
Several years ago when my school district was working to create a new, more actionable mission statement, we hit an unforeseen bump in the road. We were proudly reviewing our sixth draft of the...
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The inner workings of the middle school math mind
The middle school mind is…different. As 13-year-old Logan LaPlante described in his Ted Talk Hack Schooling Makes Me Happy, “Neuroscientists say that the teenage brain is pretty weird: our prefrontal...
View ArticleFilling Foundational Gaps and Preparing Students for Algebraic Concepts
Each year as a new group of bright-eyed, bushy-tailed students file into our math classrooms, we see their math ability reflected in their degree of eye contact. The ones who are confident and get good...
View ArticleEngaging ELL students in middle school
Imagine being suddenly transported into a classroom in a foreign country. You are expected to solve math problems that the teacher just introduced, yet you don’t speak the language. Did you pick up on...
View ArticleMath Outside the School Day: Focus on Process, not Content
When a student struggles with math, many schools find ways to provide that individual with additional time to learn the subject. While some schools schedule a supplementary math class for the student...
View ArticleSuccess in Algebra Requires Deeper Learning
The Reality of Learning Gaps in My Classroom The first year I taught tenth grade Geometry, I gave my students a bonus* problem on the final that required them to use what they had learned the year...
View ArticleAre your students Algebra-ready?
It’s that time of year again! The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, spring break has ended, and math recommendations for the next school year are due. As a professional who has spent the...
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Four OST Math Programs to Raise Achievement
Want to print this? Click here to download a high-resolution PDF of the infographic. Though slowly improving over time, the most recent national assessments indicate that about six out of every ten...
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[Infographic] Algebra Readiness through Deeper Learning in Middle School
How Teachers Can Empower Students to Achieve with Confidence Read our latest white paper on Algebra Readiness through Deeper Learning in Middle School: Empowering Students and Teachers to Achieve with...
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