Rough-Draft Talk in Front of Hundreds of Math Teachers. Bull; March 9, 2018. I was on a raised platform with seven middle school students to my left and six to my right and several hundred math teachers surrounding us on all sides. But what kind of math should we.

Thoughts on education by Grant Wiggins. My reply to Willingham, Part 2. In part 1 of my reply. I took issue with his reasoning and analogies. In Part 2 of my response to Willingham, let me get right to the evidence. I propose that he has quoted very selectively and drawn questionable conclusions from the research he does cite. Here is the key paragraph from his. RCS instruction has a s.

Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. The Roller-Coaster Ride of Innovation. Do you imagine artists working alone, in a basement somewhere, detached from society? Do you imagine them being poor, bad with money, unable to function well in the everyday world of work? This image is mostly false. Artists are embedded in the world, just like the rest of us, according to a recent article by Katy Waldman in the.

I thought I was on the right teaching track using real-world contexts to talk about fractions with a class of fourth and fifth graders. One Lesson, Two Pedagogical Mistakes.

We talked about a simple yet inefficient method for listing all orthobraces. Generating Bracelets with Fixed Content. Perhaps I will write about it someday, but that would be another many-post series in and of itself! But I implemented it here.

What makes an equation tricky to solve? March 26, 2018. Here are four equations, each using similar numbers. Equations that can trigger arithmetic.

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The blog of the Mathematical Practices Institute. Language Decisions in Illustrative Mathematics 6-8 Math. A wide-ranging team worked together to develop the Illustrative Mathematics Grades 6-8 Math. Many of the authors were and are experienced teachers of Grades 6-8, while others are experienced high school teachers. I remember one discussion vividly in building the Grade 6, Unit 2.

Science Leadership Academy lost Class of 2011 alumnus Brandon Williams today. Brandon battled sickle cell his entire life, and today, he ran out of time in that fight. Brandon was such a valued member of the SLA community, both during his time in school and after. He came back to school as our assistant baseball coach, and he freely gave of his time, mentoring current students who also suffer from sickle cell.