3. Make Room for the Future

These Standards define what students need to understand and be able to do in their study of mathematics…Mathematical understanding and procedural skill are equally important…

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

  1. Paper Bag Math 
  2. Paper 
  3. Paper Algorithms 
  4. The Problem with Fractions 
  5. Mr. Sinaiko’s Lecture
  6. Eric Mazur’s Peer Instruction 
  7. Textbooks and MOOCs 
  8. “Stand and Deliver” 
  9. When the 4Cs replace the 3R 
  10. Critical Thinking is Problem Solving 
  11. Creativity 
  12. Communication 
  13. Collaboration 
  14. Bloom’s Problem Solving Vision 
  15. Over the Rainbow

 

Chapter 3. Explorations

The Hawthorne Effect

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Balance

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The End

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Mastery

The word seems so benign. Yet it has become the goto word in education. School superintendents, even the best and most advanced of them, use… Read more

Change

“Today, it seems as if nearly everyone agrees that high school mathematics needs to change. For far too long high school mathematics has not worked… Read more