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Talented Students Are Kept From Early Algebra. Should States Force Schools to Enroll Them?

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Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts. After a family discussion, we decided he would repeat Algebra 1 in ninth grade,” Lynem, a journalism lecturer, wrote in CalMatters. Perhaps most controversial was its treatment of algebra.

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Could Play Boost Students’ Math Performance?

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Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its flexible, willingly-chosen and yes, fun. When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. At least, he wants them to feel that way occasionally and temporarily.

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Equity and Access in Math Education

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One such program, CollegeReadyMath , provides supplemental math support for middle school, high school and college students to improve their algebra skills while also providing supplemental support to teachers. These tools provide students with the flexibility to access them at any time, on their own or with their peers.

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From Fractions to Functions: Navigating Key Topics in GCSE Maths

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Algebra Like Numbers, the Algebra curriculum provides students with a ‘toolkit’ to master this topic. This ‘algebra toolkit’ consists of simplifying, expanding, factorising and the law of indices. Reviews of past exam performance reveals that students have trouble connecting algebra concepts.

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13 Teaching Strategies to Shake up Your Remote Teaching

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In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks. Habits of Mind lists sixteen of these. Orton-Gillingham. Visible Learning.

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5 Resources to Gamify Student Writing

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The curriculum is just a frame, which gives you the flexibility to engage the students in different ways. If you’re teaching algebra, for example, you can explore the lesson plans that include Dragonbox Algebra 5+ ; a cool game that gives live to plain numbers. Do you know how you can make them interested in learning?

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32 Math Apps for a Rigor-infused Classroom

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Elevated Math –Elevated Math provides initial instruction or intervention on math topics that cover place value, estimation, large digit addition all the way through Algebra I (two years of math instruction!). Free GraCalc –A powerful, flexible graphing calculator. Unfortunately, the eggs are on top of a tall cliff. and it’s free!

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