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Current conversations:
- Grading policy
Suggestions for grading math homework
- Date of thread's last activity: 25 August 2012
- Algebra
Tips on making algebra more interesting
- Date of thread's last activity: 14 August 2012
- Pre-calculus
Selecting a textbook for pre-calculus classes and the use of calculators in
these classes
- Date of thread's last activity: 14 August 2012
- Research on use of math games
Research on the effectiveness of math games in the classroom.
- Date of thread's last activity: 23 July 2012
- Math Anxiety
Discussion of math anxiety, its symptoms and effects in the classroom.
- Date of thread's last activity: 12 July 2012
- Dividing fractions
Sometimes it seems like you can divide across instead of inverting and
multiplying. Why?
- Date of thread's last activity: 7 June 2012
- Measures of central tendency; median
Real life applications of measures of central tendency
- Date of thread's last activity: 4 June 2012
- Textbook for Consumer Math
Consumer Math text books for juniors and seniors
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 June 2012
- The change in emphasis and methods of teaching math
Teaching math with more emphasis on mental strategies and practical
experiences and less emphasis on recording, particularly in the early years
- Date of thread's last activity: 28 May 2012
- Assessment
What are authentic assessment, alternative assessment, performance assessment?
- Date of thread's last activity: 22 May 2012
- Showing a student how to do division in the simpliest way
An alternative algorithm for long division, sometimes called the "partial
quotients" method.
- Date of thread's last activity: 9 May 2012
- Teaching fractions and perimeter
Activities to teach perimeter and fraction with tangrams and pattern blocks.
- Date of thread's last activity: 8 May 2012
- Front End Estimation
Using front end estimation to solve problems
- Date of thread's last activity: 22 April 2012
- Blind student in algebra
Some good strategies to teach a blind student of above-average
intelligence, both pre-algebra and algebra
- Date of thread's last activity: 16 April 2012
- Fractions
How to give general lessons about fractions to a middle school student
- Date of thread's last activity: 2 April 2012
- CGI Mathematics
Information on CGI Mathematics
- Date of thread's last activity: 22 March 2012
- Helping students understand decimals
Grids and money ideas for teaching decimals and mixed numbers (fractions).
- Date of thread's last activity: 21 March 2012
- Place value Reversals in First Grade
Suggestions for helping first graders understand place value. Discussion of
directionality/reversal problems.
- Date of thread's last activity: 17 March 2012
- Interviewing questions
Suggestions on questions to ask when interviewing new teachers
- Date of thread's last activity: 28 February 2012
- Math in everyday living
Math Web sites for mentally challenged students
- Date of thread's last activity: 19 February 2012
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