I have 12 tabs open in Firefox right now, all things I want to remember to follow up. Maybe if I put a few links here, I can close some of those tabs...
Pre-school.
Elementary.
High School.
College.
Pre-school.
- I think I posted before about this. Gwen Dewar writes:
This preschool math game was designed by researchers who wanted to know if a board game could help kids develop their number sense (Ramani and Siegler 2008). The premise? That a game featuring sequentially-numbered spaces would help preschoolers learn about the number line and about the relative magnitude of numbers. The game was very effective. After only 4 game sessions totaling less than 80 minutes, kids made substantial, lasting improvements in the areas of mathematical knowledge mentioned above.
She describes how you can make the same game yourself. Instead of making a spinner (as she suggests), you could modify a die to have 3 ones and 3 twos on it. I found this older article when I was reading her current article on good educational toys. It hadn't occurred to me how cool digital cameras might be for kids.
Elementary.
- Denise has posted a cool game, Times Tac Toe.
- Division of fractions, done well.
High School.
- The New York Times has an intriguing article about 8 high school students who were allowed to form their own mini-school within the school, which they called the Independent Project.
College.
- Keith Nabb wrote an article I like, but it's hidden in a password protected site. I'm asking if I can post it here. Meanwhile, check out these animations he has for his Algebra, Trig, and Calc courses.
- A student of mine in Beginning Algebra is struggling with negative numbers. I liked this article, and plan to send her a link to it.
- In my Intermediate Algebra class, we'll be starting roots tomorrow. This article is at a higher level than most of them will want, but I think I can share a bit of this issue with my students. How do we pick which square root is the principal root?
- Research on teaching (versus pseudoteaching) and learning.
- In the 26th comment on Dan Meyer's WCYDWT: Storytelling post, Kathy Sierra wrote:
Why they don�t teach screenwriting techniques to teachers is beyond me. We used to make all the authors in our tech book series read the screenwriting book Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder, and build storyboards for each topic using that simplified framework. It�s not an answer to bad teaching, but it�s a way of structuring a lesson that feels more like a hero�s journey for the learner... [I want that book.]
- How many representatives should each European Union member country get? Mathematicians studied this question. One of the criteria was that the final 'formula' be easy for everyone to understand. They settled on something pretty simple, but there are lots of little twists. (And one big hurdle: Some countries would lose representatives. Can the other countries get those countries to agree to this?) I have a story to tell about helping a friend design another formula, but that will have to wait until I have more time.
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