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Ideas and Strategies for Engaging Math Classrooms

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  • Flipped Classroom: Facilitating, not lecturing

    Flipping your class changes the entire dynamic! You are no longer the sage on the stage, and now there’s time for fun activities and to sit with struggling students. Investigate this epic differentiation strategy.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

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  • Is Music a Good Classroom Manager?

    Can music help to establish expectations in the classroom?View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

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  • The Case for Interactive Notebooks

    I’ve been using interactive notebooks for the last 7 years and will never teach without them again. An interactive notebook is usually a composition notebook that students “interact” with by gluing in visuals, highlighting, drawing, graphing and reflecting on the pages with the notes. Some characteristics of the interactive notebook include consistent page numbering, tables…

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  • Helping Students to Collaborate

    How do you teach kids to collaborate? It’s a years long process and set of skills that need constant honing and development. View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

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  • Math Activities that Make Students Collaborate

    We know that collaboration is a great strategy to help students learn and enforce their understanding of a topic. So how to do make them do it when they seem to have lost the knack?View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

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  • What does Anxiety look like in class?

    We keep reading these articles about the anxiety that so many people are struggling with these days. We are shocked and sympathetic to this plight but what specifically does it look like in our classrooms? And how do we help to support those learners and not exacerbate the problem? Anxiety is crippling. It can lookView…

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