Measuring a Solid
Many students never really understand volume or surface area, although they can memorize the formulas and even apply them on tests. These resources have been selected with an eye to helping students...
View ArticleMath Students Collaborating Nationwide, Even Worldwide!
There are middle school projects that gain impact through collaboration with students outside your own classroom, such as estimating the average amount of water used per person per day. This problem...
View ArticleReading and Writing Mathematics
Reading the math textbook or handouts or extended response problems presents built-in challenges. The vocabulary of mathematics can be confusing, with some words meaning one thing in a mathematical...
View ArticleWriting Math
As in other subjects, writing forces us to order our thoughts, make them clear to others. In mathematics, writing, as difficult as it is, helps students organize their understandings of concepts and...
View ArticleReading Math
You may have heard this complaint or even made it yourself: “These tests are more about reading than they are about math!” Students are increasingly asked to understand and apply math to situations,...
View ArticleLinking Math to Real Problems
Why bother with statistics in middle school? One answer: data analysis is one of the NCTM Standards and an 8th grade Focal Point. But even more important, in my experience, is that statistics links...
View ArticleCrippling with Compassion?
Strange title? It comes from teacher Ellen Berg’s article in Teacher Magazine, Teaching Secrets: Don’t Cripple With Compassion. From her perspective, “One of the major issues with American teachers...
View ArticleAmazing New Collection of Hands-on, Interactive Resources
The Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley, has launched an online collection of hands-on, interactive resources to help informal educators in nonclassroom settings, such as...
View ArticleCollecting and Analyzing Real Data
Data collection and analysis can be an avenue into meaningful mathematics, science, and problem-solving skills needed by students in the twenty-first century. And an answer to the student question, Why...
View ArticleFree Articles from NCTM Middle School Math Journal
Take a free look at the articles from the NCTM middle school journal – Mathematics: Teaching in the Middle School. Explore and share with others. Check out the Reflection Guides. They provide...
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