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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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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The day before any break is always a tricky day for teachers. Some handle these days by showing movies, some keep on plowing through material, some reviewing previous material, and some enrich or extend the material. Hopefully the following activities have educational benefits. If not, at least I’m not showing a movie.
The [...]
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