1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

Jose Medrano and Rebeca Zapata shuddered at what their daughter, Miranda Zapata, brought home one recent day: fifth grade math homework. “Since it’s something I haven’t practiced recently, I feel like ...

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Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

To form a bagel, the Carbohydrate Bakeshop starts with a spherical wad of dough. The spherical wad of dough has an area of 525.8947391 square centimeters. The sphere is reformed into a perfect torus, ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the use of mixed reality technology to support mathematics instruction at the elementary level. An MR-based educational game focused on the four basic operations was ...

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THERMAL, Calif. (KESQ) – Mr. Freddie Cabanting, a third-grade teacher at Westside Elementary, was awarded the "One Class at a Time Teacher of the Month" by News Channel 3 and the Walter Clark Legal ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...