My school is about to implement some sort of math facts fluency standards. This is probably a good thing when the majority of my students coming into the year had count up or down on their fingers when they are doing addition and subtraction. Not to mention 5th graders who still add 6 [...]
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Today is a historic day. No doubt about it. Many words have been and will be written about this exact day. However, quite a few of those words will be filled with snark and jokes about our former leader, George W. Bush. If this is a time of hope and change, [...]
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Beginning our unit on Newton’s Laws and force this semester, I made a pledge to myself to make sure my students are involved with the unit. I took a quote from the Science Teacher blog’s sidebar:
Science is not about content–the content is ephemeral, it’s the process that matters.
The first step was getting students [...]
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