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Common Core State Standards for Mathematics: Dream Come True or Nightmare to Come?
High stakes tests should assess what the public values from education, but they too often fall short of measuring the many and varied student learning outcomes that actually occur in classrooms. For example, in...
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Ed Dickey
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The Neighborhood STEM School: Creating a Better World
How will you make the world better? This question challenges every member of the Preston Middle School community and serves as the foundation for everything we do. Preston Middle School is a school of science,...
Author:
Tracey Winey and John Howe
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Recognizing the A in STEM Education
We live in a world where you can’t understand science without technology, which couches most of if its research and development in engineering, which you can’t create without an understanding of the...
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Georgette Yakman
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Helping ELLs Master the Dreaded Word Problem
Dean has a recipe for lemonade. To make 14 servings, Dean will need 4 cups of lemon juice. How many ounces of lemon juice will Dean need if he wants to make 35 servings? Students in the United States are taught to...
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Diana Picchi Cwynar & Susan Hewett
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Students Use Graphic Organizers to Improve Mathematical Problem-Solving Communications
"Let me give you a math story problem." This sentence often strikes fear in many middle grades students as well as some teachers. As international comparisons, national commissions, and state assessment results...
Author:
Alan Zollman
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Teaching Fractions in Middle Grades Mathematics
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Fractional concepts are important building blocks of elementary and middle school mathematics curriculum. Conceptually based instruction of fractions requires teachers to have a complete understanding of the subject...
Author:
Z. Ebrar Yetkiner, Mary Margaret Capraro
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Manipulatives in Middle Grades Mathematics
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Current research on the use of manipulatives in the middle grades is not as extensive as research on manipulative use in the elementary grades and with students with disabilities (Cobb, 1995; Driscoll, 1980; Sowell,...
Author:
Dianne Goldsby
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