- BEAM: Be A Mathematician
A mathematics curriculum development project for nursery, primary, special and lower secondary teachers. It publishes resource materials for teachers' use in the classroom, offers training courses for teachers, and provides consultancy in the area of
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- The Benezet Centre - Richard Hake & Sanjoy Mahajan
In 1929, Louis Benezet tried an experiment, "abandoning all formal instruction in arithmetic below the seventh grade and concentrating on teaching the children to read, to reason, and to recite." The experiment was successful; this site includes Benezet's
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- The Better File Cabinet - Eric Hsu
A database of non-routine calculus problems used in college workshops for Uri Treisman's Emerging Scholars Programs. It was originally a highly searchable database of calculus problems, comments and solutions. It will eventually will be a database cross-referencing
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- Challenge by Choice - David Suarez and others
A classroom mathematics program that lets students choose their own level of challenge within the structure of the curriculum. His blog offers details of the program, the theoretical and practical basis of differentiated instruction, and the results he's
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- Division by Zero - Dave Richeson
A blog about "math, puzzles, teaching, and academic technology." Posts, which date back to September of 2008 and sometimes introduce original applets, have included "Volumes of n-dimensional balls," "Albrecht Dürer's ruler and compass constructions,"
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- Education Reform Links: Louisiana and Around the Nation - Beauregard Parish (Louisiana) Public Library
Links to sites with topics in the area of education reform of interest in the local school system, the state of Louisiana and across the United States.
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- Encyclopedia of Informal Education - Infed.org
Explores key ideas, practices and thinkers in informal education, lifelong learning and social action. Includes opinion pieces, event listings, support, and other resources. Infed.org is an independent and not-for-profit site created by a small group
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- The Exponential Curve - Dan Greene
A blog by a math teacher at Downtown College Prep charter high school (San Jose, California), where the students "... are primarily Latino, are far below grade level in their math and reading skills, and will be the first in their families to go to college.
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- Finding Common Ground in K-12 Mathematics Education - Mathematical Association of America
"Starting point" documents, designed to advance the discourse about how to improve K-12 mathematics teaching and learning, that emerged from MAA-convened pilot meetings between mathematicians and mathematics educators thought to be strongly aligned with
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- gealgerobophysiculus - Evan Weinberg
Thoughts on teaching, learning, and "the crazy process of having fun doing both with students." Posts, which date back to September, 2011, have included "How China Keeps Me Learning: Part I," "Lens Ray Tracing in Geogebra," "Take Time to Tech – Perspectives
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- Harry Bohan's Web Site
Site contains personal info (education, jobs, list of publications), hyperstudio stacks of K-8 math programs (some available for download here, all available by sending the required number of HD disks to Harry Bohan), an extensive page on teaching multiplication,
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- How Students Learn: History, Math, and Science in the Classroom - M. Suzanne Donovan and John D. Bransford, National Academies Press
A volume that uses the latest research on cognition, teaching, and learning to address the practical questions that confront every classroom teacher. Leading educators explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches,
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- Kitchen Table Math - Catherine Johnson
A collaborative weblog that began when Johnson's son "... finished out the school year with a 39 on his Unit 6 test, Fractions and Decimals.... Later on I discovered that fractions are the 'bottleneck' in elementary mathematics; lives are lost in the
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- Learning Point Associates
Learning Point is a diversified, nonprofit consulting organization with clients of all sizes across the country, from state education agencies and single-school districts to private foundations and for-profit corporations. It began as the North Central
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- Matematicamente.it - Antonio Bernardo and Marcello Pedone
Esercizi svolti, raggruppati per argomenti; appunti di analisi; test di matematica, per le medie superiori; tesine maturità agli esami di stato; ingresso superiori; approfondimenti, spunti e idee per insegnanti e studenti; misura il Quoziente di
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- Math by Design: Teaching for Understanding - Purposeful Design Publications
Preview or purchase math textbooks, each of which contains lesson objectives, blackline and drill masters, color transparencies, letters to parents, and "Moments With...," which "integrate math with various subject areas and the Bible."
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- Math Education Page - Henri Picciotto
Math education articles by the author, with an emphasis on algebra. A New Algebra: Tools, Themes, Concepts, an article that summarizes the pedagogical and curricular thinking behind ATTC; Early Mathematics: A Proposal for New Directions, a chapter in
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- Mathematics by Mr. P - Mike Poliquin
Middle school math teacher Poliquin began this blog, subtitled "making sure everyone gets it," in December, 2011. Posts have included various original problems of the week; "Eudoxus of Cnidus: the First Mathematical Superstar"; "A Quick Dip in the Deep
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- MathFour - Bon Crowder
Articles, interviews of fellow mathematician parents, narrated videos of paper-and-pen math techniques, and other resources for homeschooling and afterschooling parents. Crowder, an instructional strategist by day, seeks to get parents to feel "comfortable
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- MathNotations - David Marain
Math investigations, challenges, problems of the day, and standardized test practice that emphasize the development of conceptual understanding in mathematics. Marain's blog, which dates back December of 2006, also features dialogue on issues in mathematics
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- Math - Science Search
Science Search is a directory for scientific topics, including this subsection of Math. Individual entries include description, category, and a user rating of the site.
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- Math - Teaching Channel
Browse and search Teaching Channel's video showcase of inspiring and effective math teaching practices in America's schools. Topics include class culture, engagement, differentiation, collaboration, "new teachers," and Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
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- misscalcul8
Blog by a high school teacher of algebra and geometry who "expects to be the best teacher that has ever lived, to change the world, and to live wealthy." Posts, which date back to February, 2009, have included "This, My Friend, Is Learning," "7 Country
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- Productive Struggle
Group blog, with most contributions by secondary math and science teachers, that aims to "push teachers to learn in the same way that we push our students to learn" and "work together to make our struggles productive." Posts, which date back to March,
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- Teaching Like It's 2999! - Jennie Cho Magiera
After her "world was completely changed thanks to a grant approval for 32 iPads," this 5th grade math teacher in the Chicago Public Schools has used the technology to improve assessment practices and increase differentiation. Posts in her blog, which
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- Teaching - Peter Alfeld, University of Utah
A page of teaching resources intended primarily for Alfeld's University of Utah students, but useful to others as well. Includes a passage from Richard Feynman on teaching; Understanding mathematics - a study guide; current and past courses (Analysis
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