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  • Applications of Exponential Functions January 6, 2012
    I have asked teachers I know who are teaching financial concepts in their classrooms, many of whom have participated in a Math Forum professional development course, to contribute their stories to this blog, this is the third, courtesy of Patty, about an activity that she did  with high school students. Fitting financial topics into my […]
    Valerie

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  • Planning to launch good lessons… and then teach them December 12, 2011
    A lot of talk on the math-ed-web-o-sphere has focused on effective techniques for engaging students in solving problems (e.g. Dan Meyer’s 3 Acts) and especially on perfecting the hook: the juicy image, movie, story, question, etc. that gets students wondering and conjecturing. In the part of my job in which I am a math coach, […]
    Max

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  • Who Gives Your Students Feedback? February 11, 2012
    Sometimes when I describe how the Math Forum’s Problems of the Week service works a teacher and/or their administrator get very interested when I mention the online feedback options. Imagine reading or hearing a version of this description: Students are encouraged to submit solutions explaining how they arrived at their answer, as the beginning of […]
    Suzanne Alejandre

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  • Fourth Grade Pictures of Long Division February 20, 2012
    My friend Debbie, the enrichment teacher at a local elementary school, sent me the following pictures, along with this question: “What do you think about the attached? Fourth grade E[veryday] M[ath] ch 6 intro.” My short answer was, “I think it’s brilliant!” I’ll expound on that more in a follow-up post, but wanted to throw […]
    Annie

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  • Fractions to Decimals January 20, 2012
    Cheryl wrote, Do you know of any good activities that are appropriate for 6th graders that help explain/show why you divide the numerator by the denominator to convert a fraction to a decimal? Cheryl, What a great question. And I’ll answer in the most roundabout of ways. We get numbers from counting, measuring and performing operations […]
    Ellen

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  • Free Scenario: Lincoln’s Top Hat #wcydwt February 20, 2012
    Lincoln’s Top Hat Did you know that there is a famous illusion associated with Lincoln’s “stove pipe” hat? The hat looks like it’s taller than it is wide, even when the height and width (including the brim) are the same. Let’s make a hat: Cut a circle with a radius of 5 1/2 inches. Cut […]
    Annie