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JANUARY 28, 2025

By combining creativity with problem-solving, children can better understand concepts that might otherwise seem too technical or dull. STEAM is an educational approach that includes science, technology, engineering, art, and math. For starters, it teaches kids how to think critically. These projects also teach patience.

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JUNE 23, 2022

An article over at The Tech Edvocate caught my eye on early math. Math is a fundamental process in learning, not just adding and subtracting but to develops skill in problem solving and critical thinking. Here’s The Tech Edvocate’s article: Teaching Early Geometry Concepts. Teaching Math.

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JUNE 5, 2024

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. In addition, students may struggle with more advanced mathematical concepts and problem-solving tasks as they progress in their education.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Game development teaches kids valuable skills like creativity, problem-solving, and persistence—skills they’ll use for life! Building Problem-Solving Skills Through Game Development Game development naturally encourages kids to think critically and solve problems. And the best part?

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MARCH 3, 2025

Just as early literacy sets the stage for reading comprehension, early numeracy establishes a critical foundation for mathematical thinking and problem-solving. It contributes to cognitive development, problem-solving abilities and logical reasoning essential skills across all subjects and future career paths.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

The difficulties with engaging children in math learning grows each year. I have several articles coming up next week that discuss that issue (links won’t work until publication date): What is ‘Technical Math’ –December 10, 2021 (this article). Math Scores Drop Again –December 17, 2021.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. Thinking Games Time required: Optional Pre-holiday school days are great for supporting school goals surrounding Habits of Mind, problem-solving, and critical thinking with websites that focus on those skills. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Research has shown that hands-on tasks improve problem-solving abilities, focus, and confidence. Exposing kids to trades isnt just about preparing them for jobsits about strengthening their minds and teaching them valuable life skills. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB, an education and consulting research firm, and his colleagues have found that students entering college now will likely struggle the most in math.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems. And that's how people learn math.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

It’s not about zeros and ones, or math and science. It’s about solving problems kids didn’t think they could, in creative ways that feel good. The Ask a Tech Teacher crew has come up with a foundational list of tips for teaching coding. That does not mean your student should have to teach themselves.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

The need to teach responsible and ethical digital habits has never been more pressing. This shift changes how we approach teaching young people about digital citizenship. Richard Culatta This is why it’s so important to overtly teach good digital citizenship skills. The determination depends on how we choose to use it.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Today, because of the changes in education, the use of games to reinforce learning, to teach, and to engage students in their own education has become one of the most effective tools to bridge the gap between school-based and remote learning. It simply means teachers include games in their lesson plans to teach curricular concepts.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In contrast, soft skills are not specialized; they are the everyday skills we need to be successful and contribute to our communities, such as communication, problem-solving, collaboration and empathy — all important. Instead, we approach soft skills in CTE by infusing practice into daily, weekly and monthly student activities.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

It feels like: When it should feel like: 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 they don’t expect a discussion on problem-solving or Minecraft to help with math). Build Your Own Apps.

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APRIL 11, 2019

I’ve been teaching technology for over fifteen years. While student familiarity with this tool has improved, one thing that never varies is the myths surrounding teaching with it. You don’t have to teach keyboarding. Teach the digital tool and then use it. Math is like that. Here’s how this works.

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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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MAY 8, 2023

But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. Or even newer math ?) So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education?

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. The teachers just expect her to understand the math right away, she says.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Subjects like math and science — the ones only “smart” kids do well in — demand that you find patterns, unravel clues, connect one dot to another, and scaffold knowledge learned in prior lessons. Don’t say science and math are hard. Don’t jump in to solve problems. by Open University.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. That research identified four distinct stages of problem solving — encoding, planning, solving and responding — that engaged diverse areas of the brain.

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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. – Pre-school Math. Zap Zap Math can be played as an app or on a PC via a download.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Math and Virtual Manipulatives. Math—by Grade Level. Math—game-oriented. Problem solving. Math Pickle –put student in a choatic situation and see how they solve the problem. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Contraction Practice. Feast of Homonyms.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Problem-solving is the most important skill that students learn in the classroom. It is the meat and potatoes of mathematics, whether the problems perplex the Stephen Hawkings of the world or first graders learning basic arithmetic. Strong problem-solving abilities will serve students in every profession and aspect of life.

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DECEMBER 31, 2021

Teaching Math. How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing, and Problem Solving. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Managing Difficult Parents. YouTube Features for Teachers. Google Earth Lesson Plans. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link].

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JUNE 6, 2018

Young children especially benefit from fun math games. ORIGO Education , a curriculum publisher specializing in early math education, pulled together a list of fun summer activities. Parents can mix up math in the kitchen, on the sidewalk, even at the beach!” 15 Math Games. said DePaul. DePaul recommends downloading.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Fractions are not the easiest of math concepts to learn (or teach), yet are arguably one of the most oft applied to our daily lives. Teachers have long sought intuitive methods to teach fractions that are less frustrating than worksheets and more effective than rote drills.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

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. They don’t expect a discussion on problem solving or Minecraft to help them with math). No experience needed.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2016

At the core of every action is problem-solving: Minecraft encourages kids to tinker. To build their world, players require geography, chemistry, math, and more. Problem Solving. Problem solving has become granular to good lesson plans. How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mathematics is not just about solving equations or memorizing formulas; it’s a way of thinking. It teaches us problem-solving skills, logical reasoning, and the ability to think abstractly. There you can get advice and solve various mathematical problems in college.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

It feels like: When it should feel like: 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 they don’t expect a discussion on problem-solving or Minecraft to help with math). Build Your Own Apps.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As educators struggle with the best way to teach critical thinking and problem solving, coding has proven to be an effective and flexible tool. While most parents agree that it should be part of the modern school’s program, only a small percentage ( about 40% of schools) teach coding. 1 It’s a Foundational Skill.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here are Holiday websites that will keep students busy while teaching them: 12 Days of Christmas. Holiday—Math Facts. They take lots of critical thinking, problem-solving, and are worth the effort! Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Need a few websites to fill in free minutes?

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MAY 21, 2024

Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. We tend to think of learning in the early years as about numbers and letters and math and learning to read. But here's my biggest issue with Haidt. It's the kid currency.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow the algorithmic steps of the math problem, she struggles with her reasoning and ability to make sense of the steps she is taking.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It teaches: Visualization and Understanding : Graphing helps students visually represent data, functions, and relationships. Problem Solving : Graphs provide a way to solve problems and make predictions. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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