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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. Pricing: Free for teachers and students.

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JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. If you ask seventh and eighth graders what their hardest subject is, they’ll hands down tell you it’s math. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The recent unveiling of national reading and math scores revealed some disheartening trends about learning recovery with the collective main headline: Students Are Doing Worse Than Before the Pandemic Started. Some data suggests that parents trying to help with math homework make students do worse.

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JULY 25, 2023

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? Modern educational tools make it possible to add a practical edge to math lessons, as students can observe math structures at play in the real world and see how people apply these formulas to solve common challenges. public schools provide students with computers.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 4, 2022

There’s a scene in the award-winning film A Beautiful Mind where the real-life math genius John Nash (played masterfully by Russell Crowe) stands before two massive screens full of cryptic numbers formulated by an enemy government and computes in his mind for hours until he demystifies the code.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Here’s along list of websites that focus on math automaticity for the K-5 classroom. K Math Skills. Math Videos (not practice, but fun to watch). First Grade math skills. Math Flashcards. Math Flashcards. Math Practice Test. Mental Math. More Quick Math. Quick Math.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Challenge can be played unplugged (no computer required), as a Jeopardy Game, through Kahoot, or using a similar gameshow format of your choice. Because it can be played unplugged, it’s great for days when computers are broken or not available. We’ll use the unplugged approach today. Click to view slideshow.

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JULY 8, 2019

Math used to be a tedious memorization of facts and formulas. Thousands of students found out, to their surprise — and often, their parents — that they loved math. Thousands of students found out, to their surprise — and often, their parents — that they loved math. Interactivate.

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Computer Science Teacher

JULY 3, 2022

For one thing a lot of teachers have been voluntold that they are going to teach computer science in the fall.Some have never taught CS before. Hopefully, all CS teachers join the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Many people also join Computer Science Educators which is a wide ranging group for CS teachers.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) is in the process of updating their influential standards. The role of computing education in K-12 should be to introduce students to computing for whatever they are going to do in life. I am arguing here that Sense of Belonging in CS should not be in that set. Hansen et al.,

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JANUARY 22, 2025

This student, a recent immigrant from El Salvador, often struggles because of his limited English ability in core subjects like math, reading and science. An orchestra of wows erupted from his classmates. To help me learn English faster, I was pulled out of my elective class, which was art, to give me a double dose of English instruction.

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MAY 30, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). The over 150 games are fast-paced and interactive, and cover over 180 math topics. My favorite characteristics of Zap Zap Math include: Math topics are delivered in a module-oriented manner.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you participated in December’s Hour of Code, you may have come to realize the importance of Computer Science to students. Here’s Greg’s informed perspective on this question: Beyond job opportunities, why should all K-12 students learn about computer science? The same applies to computer science.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

When educators consider the term computational thinking (CT), they often think of math or coding. But if you ask Daniel Fung, vice principal and English teacher at the Sham Tseng Catholic School in Hong Kong, he will tell you computational thinking is an entire pedagogy geared toward teaching lifelong problem-solving skills.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For all that education has changed in recent times—from the disappearance of cursive lessons to the rise of computer science in classrooms to pandemic-forced remote learning—one thing has remained stubbornly unchanged. That’s stress and anxiety over math. Underperformance, as a nation, in math is not new.

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Cool Cat Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Lydia Gonzalez, author of “Bad at Math: Dismantling Harmful Beliefs That Hinder Equitable Mathematics Education,” talks about the societal norms that make it acceptable to be “bad at math” and how these beliefs can be detrimental to learning. She is the author of the book “Bad at Math?

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is even so with subjects that are notoriously known for being dry and boring such as math. In this post, I share with you a wide variety of resources where you can search for and find fun math games to use with your students in and out of class. Cool Math games are student friendly and can be used in school and at home.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

December 6-12th, 2021, Computer Science Education will host the Hour Of Code–a one-hour introduction to students on coding, programming, and why they should love it, designed to demystify “code” and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. Why Should Students Learn Computer Science?

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MAY 9, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As part of 80 days of AI and HI, I've been testing ChatGPT to see what I think of it for math teachers. In this post, I'll talk about how math teachers can get totally accurate math problems (and answers) from ChatGPT. Math teachers hold on.

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Computer Science Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2022

I did find their definition : data science the science of collecting, organizing, and drawing general conclusions from data, with the help of computers. The idea of teaspoon languages is to add some computer science to other subjects to broaden participation in CS. We use math in other subjects. Sounds good to me.

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Computer Science Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This is especially true of the many teachers who dont self identify as computer science teachers. Many see themselves are math teachers or science teachers or elementary school teachers or , well, you get the picture, rather than computer science teachers.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In general, there are a large number of options, one of them is the use of auxiliary services for math help, such as do my math homework usually under this title you can find the edubirdie platform, they have been working in this field for many years. But what makes mathematics the lingua franca of computer science?

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JULY 26, 2016

Math teachers: This is for you. Here are some great suggestions from efriend and math afficionado, Matt Kim: Before I was ever a high school math teacher, I was always a hardcore technophile. It really is an exciting time for technology in education and the tools available to us to use today in our math classes is no exception.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you participated in December’s Hour of Code, you may have come to realize the importance of Computer Science to students. Here’s Greg’s informed perspective on this question: Beyond job opportunities, why should all K-12 students learn about computer science? The same applies to computer science.

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MAY 15, 2024

STEM education is not just about science and math; it develops skills such as creativity, communication, empathy and critical thinking that complement technologies like generative AI and coding. Educators face the challenge of engaging students in STEM amidst limited resources.

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MARCH 15, 2023

When I first addressed this issue fifteen years ago, it was all about replacing traditional classroom tools with one on a computer. For example, book reports were typed on the computer instead of handwritten, or math facts were practiced with a math game instead of flash cards. But that quickly became cumbersome.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The number one reason cited by superintendents and principals for not offering this integral computer skill is time scarcity. Coding basically refers to giving instructions to the computer to obtain certain results, such as video games, apps, websites, and computer software. Why Should Students Learn Computer Science?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

December 5-11, Computer Science Education will host the Hour Of Code–a one-hour introduction to coding, programming, and why students should love it. Coding is a great tie-in to Common Core math Standards. Anytime I can show students how to complete math skills without doing math, it’s a plus (because it surprises them.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

December 7-12th, 2020, Computer Science Education will host the Hour Of Code–a one-hour introduction to students on coding, programming, and why they should love it, designed to demystify “code” and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. Why Should Students Learn Computer Science?

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MARCH 29, 2025

How is AI changing the way math teachers plan lessons? Lauraine Langreo writes an article for Education Week on how AI is changing the way math teachers plan lessons. Math and AI? Yes, AI is being used by math teachers – here's how. I suggest sharing this one to your math teachers. Bill Murphy, Jr.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Quick Review of 7 Popular Math Programs. 10 Tech Tools for Your Math Class. Tech Tip #103: 16 Spring Cleaning Steps for Computers. Quick Reviews of 7 Popular Math Programs. Here they are–my top 10 lists for 2022 : 19 Great Research Websites for Kids. 12 Websites to Teach Mouse Skills. K-12 Digital Tools.

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APRIL 30, 2021

It’s similar to web-based options like Miro with two dramatic differences: It works through a iPad and can be mirrored to a computer (and from there, the class screen). All that’s needed is an iPad, AirSketch, a class computer, and a class screen. This untethers teachers from their desk. Free to try.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Math vs. Zombies (app). ASCII Art–Computer Art for Everyone (a pumpkin–see inset). Make A Zombie – Skunk Brothers GmbH (app). Meddybemps Spooky. Readwords reading collection for Halloween. Readworks Halloween Reading Resources. Signing Halloween–a video. Skelton Park. The Kidz Page. WordSearch Halloween – AFKSoft (app).

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Apps: Ace Math Halloween Games Free Lite. More Halloween Projects: ASCII Art–Computer Art for Everyone (a pumpkin–see inset). Halloween games, puzzles –clean, easy to understand website and few ads! Halloween ghost stories. Meddybemps Spooky. Pumpkin Toss. Signing Halloween–a video. Skelton Park. The Kidz Page.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

Math skills are also used as we turn the pages in a book. I was subliminally applying math skills to guide my fingers across intervals of keys on the piano keyboard. I was teaching math along with music. We might also do that for our computer literacy students learning to take dictation. The Transfer of Skills.

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