Students strengthen their learning when they use academic language to explain the math they are using. The benefits of this type of “math talk” can be amplified even more when…
Integrate Online Courses and eLearning Sites Into Your Math Classroom
The sites on this list offer more comprehensive tools for managing online learning. Some provide everything that students need for independent, self-paced learning. Others provide online textbooks or self-paced activities…
Practice, Review, and Enrich Math Skills With Digital Tools
As teachers, we’re always looking for new ways to engage our students and have them practice skills and concepts. This is an area where interactive websites, computer programs, and online…
Find and Explore Resources to Help Plan Math Lessons
Researching and finding materials for your lesson plans can be a time-consuming process. To speed things up for you, we’ve curated some of the best resources available on the Web…
Calculate, Measure, and Compute With Virtual Math Tools and Manipulatives
Students discover so much by playing with new ideas and applying concepts with manipulatives. This exploration and application was once applied only to physical manipulatives; however, hundreds of virtual math…
Tech Integration Can Power Up Your Math Classroom
The integration of digital tools into your math classroom can offer many advantages. For students, this can mean increased personalization, better and more frequent feedback, and more engaging and authentic…
Ed Tip: Categorizing
Overview Categorizing new information is key to processing information, making sense of it, and creating structures for improved recall. Students can use this collection of versatile graphic organizers to process…
Ed Tip: Activity Builders
Overview Use these templates to create engaging reinforcement and practice activities for your students. The structure has been created for you, so all you need to do is add the…
#80 – Toxic Positivity
While many in education are struggling with the challenges of teaching during a pandemic, they may be met with toxic positivity that feels out of place in the midst of…
#79 – Design for Flexibility; Be Ready for Multiple Teaching Scenarios
As COVID surges through communities and schools face shutdowns, districts are often forced to consider unexpected or sudden changes in their educational delivery model. They might need to switch to…
STEM Career Connections
In this critical reading lesson, students analyze “Career Connections (Grades 6–8),” part of the AVID STEM Connections®, through a Double-Entry Journal to develop an understanding of STEM-related careers using the…
Graphic Organizers
To make these templates easier to find, we’ve organized them into the categories below. Let us know if you have any questions or recommendations for future templates, and don’t forget…
#67 – Remembering Your Why
In preparation for Thanksgiving, we reached out on social media and asked teachers two questions: Why did you get into education? What is your current “why” that keeps you going…
Connect With Colleagues
In education, we are often told about the importance of connecting with students and families, but our ability to connect with our colleagues is just as important. As Helen Keller…
#73 – 2022 New Year’s Resolutions
Happy 2022! In this episode, we reflect on the past year and discuss our resolutions, as we look at our teaching practice and our relationships with students, their families, and…