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The secret of Schmitz Park Elementary School is Singapore Math One elementary school in Seattle — Schmitz Park Elementary — bucks the trend toward reform or constructivist math by offering Singapore Math, writes Seattle This was one of the homework questions in Craig Parsley’s fifth-grade class.
Singapore Math vs Everyday Math « BLOG
Matrices, vectors, vector spaces, transformations. Covers all topics in a first year college linear algebra course. This is an advanced course normally taken by science or engineering majors after taking at least two semesters of calculus (although calculus really isn't a prereq) so don't confuse this with regular high school algebra.
Khan Academy
Hearing about people who are older who are using the site is exciting. A lot of them are finding wholes in their education or always thought they were just "poor in math".
The other day, my daughter came to me and said, "I finally get angles." I was really proud of her. by Jul 5
Khan Academy is teaching me the math that my Elementary school teachers couldn't. by Jul 1
Phil Daro: Mathematics Common Core Standards
Phil Daro talks about the principles that he and the other Common Core Standards authors used in forming the new standards, their intention and their vision. Daro speaks to the potential that these standards have to make change in the US national education system. Correct answers are essential... but they're part of the process, they're not the product. The product is the math the kids walk away with in their heads...
ZeroSum Ruler (home)
One of my students just can’t wrap his head around the power of exponents. Can you blame him? This week we learned that it would take just 27 folds of a piece of paper for the stack to reach the height of Mount Everest, and then just 15 more - a total of just 42 folds - to reach the moon . As we started the lesson, students guessed “one million” and “47 billion!”Schultz Center Mathematics Videos
About the Mathematics Videos Sponsored by Chets Creek Elementary and Schultz Center Academy of Mathematics: K-5, these mathematics videos allow teachers and parents to become familiar with strategies and content that involve operations with numbers. The presented strategies are intended to support the variety of student created strategies that are developed with the Math Investigation lessons at school.
Use these printable fraction strips as a hands-on way to teach the concept of fractions, equivalent fractions, and comparing fractions. (Halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, etc.) Fraction Strips (Color) Member Same as above, but these fraction strips are color-coded. Print on card stock and laminate and they'll last for years to come. Great for manipulative fraction learning centers.
