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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A
absolute value
- introducing absolute value (links to outloud worksheet in Comments)
acronyms & lingo
advice on combining Saxon & Singapore
- Is Saxon & Singapore too much? (read Comments thread, too)
Adkins & Weeks
- Happy July Fourth geometry textbook (see comments)
afterschooling
ALEKS
algebra
- Gambill method of teaching algebra in a nutshell
- the Gambill method of teaching algebra
- Smartest Tractor on teaching algebra
- Smartest Tractor's write-up of her method (algebra in 8th grade) (pdf file)
- UK Framework For Algebra Preparation
- Wickelgren On Introducing Algebra
- More on algebra in 8th grade
- thinking 'algebraically' & the jump from arithmetic to algebra
- understanding basic algebra moves (& Comments)
- good advice on how to solve algebra word problems
- Matt Goff on teaching algebra
- arithmetic we need (Mary Dolciani's life and textbooks)
- Action Math (fantastic website teaching individual problems)
algebra in California
Andrew
Animals in Translation
- Animals in Translation on TIMES list
- Animals in Translation 2-29-2006
- Animals in Translation 2-05-2006
- Animals in Translation 2-12-2006
animated gifts
- compass drawing a cycle
- pencil & hand drawing a cirlce
- lattice multiplication
- the Sketchy contest winners
appreciation for math
- math journal, day two (state test)
- math journal, day three (state test)
arithmetic
Asians & math
- how Asians and Westerners think differently
- how Asians and Westerners think differently, part 2
- how Asians and Westerners think differently, part 3
- describe this picture
- Harold Stevenson, RIP
asking questions
assessment
- AssessmentTests (topic thread)
- Assess Your Child For Free
- Dont Rely On State Tests
- Precalculus Assessment Test And Crossing Midline
- New York State Math Curricula
- Were Dancing As Fast As We Can
how parents can administer ITBS (see Comments thread)
- TIMSS 1995 released items
- A systematic review of the impact of summative assessment and tests on students' motivation for learning (bibliography)
autism & Asperger's syndrome
- How to Stop a Bully
- Xtreme behaviorism, teaching, and scripts
- Omega 3 fatty acids & Omegabrites autism & bipolar disorder
- cognitive enhancers in 30 years
B
bar modeling in Singapore math- Sybilla Beckmann Article on Bar Modeling
- bar models and subtraction as difference
- Comment thread about whether you can bar-model any algebra problem
includes motorcycle/car problem - sheep and ducks problem CWP-gr4
- using bar models as defensive teaching
Barry Garelick
Ben
- Ben's summer program 2005:
Summer Supplement Time Part 3
- Summer Doldrums (one day you'll thank me)
best students here & abroad
blog ecosystem
blooki
book recommendations
bookless classroom
boys
- invisible boys
- USA Today report on 135:100 boys:girls ratio in college
- sexism in Everyday Math
- how classrooms have changed
- letter to editor from Robert Lerner, Former commissioner National Center for Education Statistics U.S. Department of Education
- please remain seated at all times
- throw rocks at boys
- 'everyone knows boys do worse in m.s.' & NEW REPUBLIC article also: Kid Writing
- slacker boys & textbooks
- high school teacher says boys are jerks
boys and girls
boxing helmets
- boxing helmets (Doug found this site)
Brown & Dolciani
- Happy July Fourth (see comments)
Basic Algebra
bullies & bullying
- how to stop a bully (Fred Frankel's GOOD FRIENDS ARE HARD TO FIND)
- Xtreme behaviorism, teaching, and scripts
- joannejacobs comments thread on bullying
buzzwords
C
calculus
- AP calculus
- Anne Dwyer & ktm guest on AP calculus
- why is calculus difficult?
- calculus in high school
- calculus text recommendations
- Bernie comment on calculus teaching
- Bernie on calculus
- So you'd like to... Learn Calculus and Analysis, And Really Understand It!
- William K. Smith Calculus
- Jeff Herzel on learning calculus
- most common mistakes on exams (apparently drawn from How to Ace Calculus)
- Ken DeRosa on calculus
- Rudbeckia Hirta advice on preparation for calculus
card game
careers & jobs in math
- The Divisions of Mathematics (ktm post)
- The Divisions of Mathematics (website)
Carolyn
- Ben
Math In The Blood
- Bernie
Math In The Blood
- Everyday Math
Math In The Blood
- reactive teaching
Math In The Blood
- Saxon Math
Math In The Blood
cartoons
Catherine
- . . . and Kitchen Table Math:
How I Got Here Part 1
- Swoop And Swoop Part 2
- Fly the Friendly Skies
charts and graphs
- Irvington compared to KIPP
- how do our best 4th graders compare?
- how do our best 8th graders compare?
children's motivation to learn math
Chinese teachers
Christopher
- Christopher on addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
- Christopher On Singapore Math
- Unit 6 test SRA math gr4:
How I Got Here Part 1
- summer program 2005:
Summer Supplement Part 2
- Christopher & his friend talk math:
Progress Report
- Bonus Pre Teen Post
- science test:
Good News Bad News
- EarthboxDay
- a cute angle:
Such A Cute Angle
- Compare And Constrast Part 7
- Maths in England (Christopher solves a two-parter)
- Christopher complains
- math boot camp
- proportion test
- grievance inventory
cognitive science
- CognitiveScience (topic thread)
- Willingham On Question Of Different Learners
college accountability
college admissions
- John Tierney on boys and college admissions
- Kenyon College director on male & female college applicants
color announcer for math practice
color theory
compare and contrast
- CompareAndContrastPosts
- Compare And Contrast
- Compare And Contrast Part 2
- Compare And Contrast Part 3
- Compare And Contrast Part 4 (the f-word)
- Compare And Contrast Part 5
- Compare And Contrast Part 6
- Compare And Contrast Part 7
- Math In Salina Kansas
- Japanese Middle School Entrance Exam
- see also: Russian Math
- images of children, Singapore Math vs. Trailblazers
- the low girl math track in France
computer as a possibly flawed learning tool (and see Jakob Nielsen)
- SuccessMaker report
- CAD students can't draw
- CAD students (Temple Grandin)
- Christopher couldn't learn math facts on computer
- Jakob Nielsen: people read 25% slower on computer screen
- KUMON rejects computer learning; sticks to pencil & paper
- brain & touch; IQ drop in UK
- Moodle software (may be good?)
conceptual understanding
- lag time between procedural fluency & conceptual understanding (in comments)
- advice from a top high school student whose father had him derive every formula
Connected Math
- Connected Math for Parents (extensive materials)
constructivism
- AboutCurricula (topic thread)
- What Does This Mean
- Lake Wobegon Part 2
- MASTER PLAN:
Master Plan - Advice From Canada
- teacher-parent conflict:
Count Your Blessings
- Concrete Thinking
- passage on constructivism & 'telling' HOW PEOPLE LEARN (in comments thread)
constructivist curricula, open-ended problems, real-world applications, emphasis on statistics & bar graphs, etc.
- MathSurf's open-ended 'target' problem
- open-ended problems in constructivist curricula
- partial list of constructivist math curricula at Homeschool Math
constructivist, NCTM standards based math programs
constructivist math tests
constructivist rhymes
contracts
crossing midline
D
data mining
deadlines
decimals
- converting a repeating decimal to a fraction
- Math Forum lesson on converting a repeating decimal to a fraction
Dick and Jane
dimensional analysis
- Dan's dimensional dominoes (manipulatives)
- unit conversion (in Comments thread)
- Carolyn on teaching unit conversions
- dimensional dominoes - announcing Dan's dimensional dominoes
- Dan has added new worksheets
- Dan K's "dimensional dominoes" (PowerPoint worksheets)
- dimensional analysis at Math Forum (includes other links at Math Forum)
- Dr. Ian talks about fractions & units
- dimensional analysis from Elements of Physics, edited by Alpheus W. Smith and John N. Cooper, McGraw-Hill 1979. ISBN 0070586349
- Donna Young's online lesson in unit multipliers (you may need to start at her homepage and search)
- a way to teach dimensional analysis
- why & how to use dimensional analysis
- rough script for teaching dimensional analysis
- another triumph for dimensional analysis
- dimensional dominoes emergency
- report from the unit conversion wars
- dimensional analysis word problems & answers
- dimensional analysis word problems to print
- answers to all 14 problems
- dimensional analysis word problems answer key only for Gisele Glosser's problems
- cool dimensional analysis problem Saxon 8/7 L96 #3
- printable dimensional analysis problem Saxon 8/7 Lesson 96 #3
- printable solution to Saxon 8/7 Lesson 96 dimensional analysis #3
direct instruction
- Siegfried Engelmann's website
- direct instruction teacher workshop (video) excellent
- scripted instruction means asking good questions
- No Comment
- Money Talks
- Special Ed Referrals Everyday Math
- Low Performers Manual by Engelmann
- passages from Engelmann on giving children work that is too hard
- Matt Goff on teaching algebra using direct instruction & formative assessment
- Gambill method of teaching algebra in a nutshell
- Smartest Tractor on teaching algebra
- Smartest Tractor's write-up of her method (algebra in 8th grade) (pdf file)
discount books
distance learning (also: online learning)
distributive property
- Doug's distributive property graphic
- Comment thread on distributive property
- J.D. Fisher's full-sized distributive property graphic
- J.D. Fisher's full-sized distributive property w/subtraction
- J.D. graphic for multiplication algorithm
- J.D. Fisher posts w/Comments & full-sized graphics for distributive property w/addition & distributive property w/subtraction
division (see long division)
Dolciani, Mary
Don Rumsfeld
dyslexia
- Shaywitz, Sally interview:
left occipital temporal region
E
ed school
education and inequality
educational psycholopgy
education research
- Tom Loveless of Brookings on inconclusive findings in ed research
- Tom Loveless of Brookings on low-level arithmetic & absence of fractions on NAEP tests
efficiency in learning & in teaching
ElementaryMath (topic thread)
Everyday Math ("Chicago Math")
- Teachers Guide Everyday Math
- Everyday Math In DC
- Everyday Math In DC Part 2
- Happy July Fourth
- First Person
Catherine's cousin's experience with E-math - Weighing the Factors: Does the City's Standardized Math Curriculum Measure Up? by Amy Sara Clark (article on Everyday Math in NYC public schools)
- Review of the Everyday Mathematics Curriculum and Its Missing Topics and Skills (pdf file)
environmental dependency
- The Physiology of Insight (article in Psychiatric Times)
exponents
- 'every number has an exponent' (see Comments)
F
fish oil Omega 3 fatty acid
- Omega 3 fatty acids & Omegabrites autism & bipolar disorder
Foerster
- Happy July Fourth (see comments)
foreign blogs
forgiving division
- Teachers Guide Everyday Math
- Forgiving Division
- Forgiving Division Part 2
- Try This With Forgiving Division
- who says long division is hard?
formative assessment
- summary of formative assessment principles
- Matt Goff on teaching algebra using direct instruction & formative assessment
- Smartest Tractor on teaching algebra using direct instruction & formative assessment (pdf file)
- Accelerated Math & Star Math
- ALEKS & formative assessment
- frequent quizzes increase learning dramatically
fourth grade slump
fraction multiplication
- help with multiplying fractions in Comments section
fractions
- 'everything's a fraction' (see Comments)
- fraction manipulative lesson on reciprocals
- fraction manipulatives to print by Doug Sundseth
- put it in money (using money to teach fractions)
fractional exponents
France
- speaking of the French
- speaking of the French part 2
- French principal says 'wake up'
- still speaking of the French
- math and language
G
games
gaps (closing gaps cramming math teaching to crammery)
gardening
- adjustable reservoir for indoor plants (links to EarthBox posts)
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- A Nerd In The House
- Gauss Story
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (painting)
geogaphy
- online geography games & learning (fantastic)
Geography of Thought
geometry
- Happy July Fourth (Moise & Downs)
- Happy July Fourth (Adkins & Weeks geometry textbook - see comments)
gifted and talented group (see wiki pages, group)
- Gifted and Talented
- U.K. report (defines top 5-10% of students as GATE)
grade contracts
- poor example of grade contract
- direct instruction grade contract
- grade contract for Canada 8th grade student (from Smartest Tractor)
- grade contract for married people
- 'the book
graphic design & images
- Irfan View (a ktm guest recommends this)
graphing calculators
grammar
greatest hits
group learning & collaborative learning
- California Dept of Ed study of group learning
- Stevenson & Stigler on group learning in Japan vs U.S.
H
Halmos, Paul
handwriting
- (also see paper)
- Anne Dwyer Summer Math Class 2005
- Anne Dwyer Summer Math Class 05 Comments
- Lone Ranger on handwriting
- Engelmann Direct Instruction program for handwriting (in Comments)
- handwriting & notetaking resources, including free online handwriting & graph & Cornell note-taking paper
- excellent web site on cursive italic handwriting: explanations & workbooks
- good Comments thread with links (handwriting)
helicopter parents & helicopter teachers
history
homeschooling & 'homeschooling on the side' or afterschoolers
- Lone Ranger Homeschooler Reports Incredible Math Progress
- More From Lone Ranger
- state laws governing homeschooling
homeschooling curricula
- Linda P on K12 (core curriculum for homeschoolers)
how to tie a shoe
humor
hyperbolic space
- Math Prof Crochets Hyperbolic Space
- Math Prof Crochets Hyperbolic Space
see Cardinal Fang's instructions for crocheting
a hyperbolic plane in the Comments thread
I
images and photos- robot posters, Santa, Little Rhoda, Twin Peaks
- time timer very small
- time timer small
- large Time Timer, white
Indus Academy (see Russian Math)
inflexible knowledge (key words: inflexible knowledge generalization abstraction)
integer tiles
- KDeRosa on Tightrope
integers
- why integers confuse students
- study sheet: integers, subtraction, absolute value
- link to excellent Math Forum page on integers & multiplying a negative times a negative
- Barry's video example of negative times negative
intelligence
- Chinese & Greek IQ & ideographs & spatial-visual processing (see Comments)
- Science News article on 'g' (subscription only)
Iowa Test of Basic Skills [ITBS]
- Were Dancing As Fast As We Can
how parents can administer ITBS (see Comments thread)
- how to give your child the ITBSB & 1 father's experience
Irvington math (see also: math in Irvington, Christopher's story)
- algebra in 8th grade
- a high school freshman's experience with Phase 3 math
- calculus in high school
- two children in after-school Singapore Math class move up to Phase 4
- working with teachers & principals when you are teaching a different math curriculum at home
- KUMON centers within 50 mile radius of Irvington
- on not trusting the state tests
- chart comparing KIPP Academy's percentage of students passing Regents A after 8th grade to Irvington percentage (scroll down)
- constructivist math in 3 states compared to Saxon Math in CA
- 4th grade math enrichment
- New York state standards get grade C
- Singapore math class closed by superintendent
- Phase 4 kids & sample state test
Irvington math: Christopher's story
- Catherine's story
- reactive teaching
- progress report after 6 weeks of Saxon Math
- the good news from here
- good news, bad news
- I'm going to Playland
- Mrs. Woeckener, a terrific teacher
Irvington Middle School
Irvington scores
J
Jacobs, Harold
Jakob Nielsen
- reduced readability on computer screens
- how people read websites
- Usability of websites for teenagers
- writing for the web
- Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002
- Top Den Web Design Mistakes of All Time
- About Us pages
- Ben Calvin on why it's harder to read on the computer
James Milgram
jargon
JUMP
- reading versus math
Canadian program to teach math to underachieving kids
K
kids
kinesthetic knowledge or learning
kinds of mathematics (see Division of Mathematics)
Kitchen Table Math
Kitchen Table Math how-to
- FromTheKitchenTable
- how to create & edit pages
- Kitchen Table Math Is A Blooki
- HowToFindNewCommentsAndUpdatesPart2 (find recent changes)
- Mozilla Firefox Versus Safari
- Wiki Definition
Klein, David
- Klein on the NSF:
Our Friends At The NSF
Kumon
- MeasurementAdviceFromCarlL
- A WonderfulGame
- Kumon puts Catherine in 4th grade
- Barb Oakley's daughter & Kumon; Columbia University students & Kumon; & description of Kumon
- Brian Micklethwait on hands & touching in learning math
- KUMON & speed & GCF
- KUMON honor roll gifs (in comments)
L
language and mathlattice method
law
learning disabilities (see also: dyslexia)
- Singapore Math Placement Test (comments thread)
liking math (see appreciation for math)
Liping Ma
- Susan S on teacher training in China
- how Chinese teachers learn math
- teacher release time & Liping Ma & Elaine McEwan's Princepal's Guide
long division
- Struggles with Long Division
- AboutLongDivision
- Who Says Long Division Is Hard
- Teachers Guide Everyday Math
- Forgiving Division
- Forgiving Division Part 2
- Try This With Forgiving Division
- Steve Leinwand on long division
M
magical number 7
- The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information by George Miller
- grandmasters and the magical number 7
- KDeRosa's tour de force
making math interesting
manipulatives
- fraction tiles by Doug Sundseth
- CA state study on manipulatives
- Fraction Manipulatives
- Quick Thought about Fraction Manipulatives
- Fraction Manipulatives Part 2
- NewStudyOnManipulatives
- New Study on Manipulatives Part 2
manipulatives to download
Mary Dolciani
- arithmetic we need (Mary Dolciani's life and textbooks)
mastery teaching
- Gambill method of teaching algebra in a nutshell
- Smartest Tractor on teaching algebra
- Smartest Tractor's write-up of her method (algebra in 8th grade) (pdf file)
math achievement
'math brain' and math talent or aptitude
- the Terminator 'magical number 7, plus or minus 2'
- Confessions of an engineering school wash-out
- more confessions of an engineering school washout
- the Terminator, or 'the magical number 7, plus or minus 2'
- On Having a Math Brain (by Carolyn)
- Wayne Wickelgren on mastery of math & on creativity & domain knowledge
- late bloomers in math & Wickelgren on children's desire to learn math
- math brain debunked (by Carolyn)
- math professors versus computer science professors
- Wayne Wickelgren on math talent
math and language
- Carolyn on math and language
- Carolyn on math and language again
- "the language of numbers is not numbers"
- What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math, by Brian Butterworth
- The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics by Stanislas Dehaene
- Children's Mathematical Development: Research and Practical Applications by David C. Geary
(fyi: It is possible to buy Geary's book for far less than the $124 Amazon wants for it, or the $55 I paid for a used & extensively highlighted copy...try the APA)
math fluency
math gap
Math Olympiads
- Math Olympiad Problem
- Happy July Fourth (Moise & Downs)
- Math Olympiad 2005
- creative problem solving
- sample problems from Math Olympiads
- Math Olympiad problems & solutions
Math Their Way
math wars
- teacher-parent conflict:
Count Your Blessings
measurement
memory
Mexico
middle school
- history of middle school movement & "brain periodization" theory
- middle school
- locker trauma & how to open a locker
middle school brain
- middle school female brain
- middle school male brain
- brain periodization theory & current research findings on brain growth in early adolescence
mnemonic devices
modular arithmetic
Monty Hall problem
- low birth weight paradox (& Monty Hall)
- Monty Hall, part 2
- false positives
- false positives, part 2
- Doug Sundseth on Monty Hall
- John Kay: We are likely to get probability wrong (subscription only)
- Monty Hall diagram from Curious Incident
multiple answers
- multiple answer math Steve H on the best answer versus the right answer
N
National Assessment of Educational Progress tests (NAEP): 'nation's report card'
- released questions, answers & performance data
- Tom Loveless of Brookings on low-level arithmetic & absence of fractions on NAEP tests
- NAEP Demonstration Booklet Readings, Mathematics, and Science 2005 Grade 8 (pdf file)
- NAEP Demonstration Booklets
- NAEP scores over time
- NAEP vs. Singapore Math
NAEP questions & percent of students with correct answer, gr-8 :
- ratio question
- number line
- fraction problem
- draw a square
- multiplication & division word problem
- read a scale problem
- pan balance problem
Name Voyager
National Mathematics Advisory Panel
National Research Council
- National Research Council curricula are an experiment
ural numbers (aka: counting numbers, positive integers)
- Natural Numbers (mathworld.wolfram.com)
Nazca lines
NCLB
- On No Child Left Behind by Chester Finn (PUBLIC INTEREST)
- The children left behind: NCLB is a giant step forward—but a mid-course correction is needed
- Johnny Can Read...in Some States
NCTM
negative exponents
- negative exponents (see Comments)
nets
New York City
New York state standards
- student solution to proportion problem
- Mathematics Core Curriculum MST Standard 3 Revised 2005 (pdf file)
- Standard 3 Mathematics (pdf file)
- Standard 3 student work (pdf file)
- State Assessment Elementary Intermediate
- NY State learning standards A - Z
- Latest News on ELA, Mathematics, and Grades 3-8 Testing
- Mathematics Resource Guide with Core Curriculum
- Core Subjects / Learning Standards
- Math Science & Technology standards
New York state test
New York Times link generator
Nielsen, Jakob usability
number lines by Doug Sundseth
- Doug's number lines
(very important for teaching operations using negative numbers)
- fraction tiles by Doug Sundseth
O
observational learning
- Christopher & his friend talk math:
Progress Report
occupational therapy (see also: crossing midline & paper and pencil)
- Precalculus Assessment Test And Crossing Midline
- Anne Dwyer Summer Math Class 05 Comments 1
- Quite Funny In Places
- Carolyn Morgan Use The Blackboard
- Slide Rules
off topic
opportunity costs
orthogonal
P
pace of instrucation
page splatter
paper and pencil
- (also see: handwriting)
- Free Worksheets
- Comments thread: graph paper, Cornell note taking paper, handwriting resources
parents & parent teaching
Passport to Mathematics
pattern learning & pattern training
- Pattern Learning
format shock - Pattern Learning Part 2
- Pattern Training
Penfield math wars
percent
Pinker, Steven
Piscal, MIke (Huffington Report)
photos
pi rocks
physics textbooks
place value
placement tests
- Saxon Math placement tests:
Saxon Placement Tests And Guides
- Singapore math placement test:
Singapore Math Placement Test
politically correct
practice and overlearning
pre-algebra
- UKFramework For Algebra Preparation
- pre-algebra worksheets Saxon Math 8/7
- arithmetic we need (Mary Dolciani's life and textbooks)
pre-calculus
- tour de force Ken DeRosa
- Bernie on getting ready for calculus
- Steve H on precalculus
- Barry Garelick on Demana Precalculus
Prentice Hall Mathematics
pre-tests
pricing on textbooks & supplements
- price comparisons
Price Comparison Saxon & Singapore
- Best Book Buys
(book price comparison web site)
- BookFinder.com
(book price comparison web site)
prime numbers
productivity and procrastination
proof of creativity
PTSA
- Irvington PTSA Forum
- PTSA Forum Tonight
- Ed's statement to the PTSA Forum
- report: PTSA Forum
- fact sheet for forum: Singapore Math & teaching to mastery & TIMSS gap
Q
R
radical constructivism
- It is possible for students to construct for themselves the mathematical practices that, historically, took several thousand years to evolve.
Cobb, P., Yackel, E. & Wood, T. (1992). A constructivist alternative to the representational view of mind in mathematics education. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 23, 2-33.
ratio & proportion
- ratio problem from BBC Skillwise (site for adults who need to improve basic skills)
- nursing math problems in ratio & proportion
reactive teaching
reading
- How Catherine Reads
- 10 Myths of Reading Instruction
- how to test your child's reading comprehension
- Sally Shaywitz on how to test your child's reading fluency
reading assessment
recent changes (see Kitchen Table Math how-to)
recipes
Regents
review
road map
- road map (how to frame an argument)
Robin Williams
Ron Aharoni
- Aharoni article, part 1
- Aharoni article, part 2: America's 'new math' goes to Israel
- Aharoni on the fifth operation of arithmetic
- Ron Aharoni on teaching fractions & forming units
- What I Learned In Elementary School by Ron Aharoni (AMERICAN EDUCATOR)
Russian math
- RussianMathematics (topic thread)
- Russian Math
- Russian Math Part 2
- Russian Math Part 3, chainring problem
- It Takes Chops
- Why I Love Carolyn
- Mike McKeown Comment
- Happy July Fourth
- Indus Academy
- Russian Math definition of division
S
Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop series
Santa
SAT scores
Saxon Math
- SaxonMath (topic thread)
- compared to other curricula
Compare And Contrast
- placement tests
Saxon Placement Tests And Guides
- pricing
Price Comparison Saxon Singapore
- Happy July Fourth (see comments)
- Saxon Advanced Mathematics (see Comments thread)
- Saxons, Dolciani's, & Brown-Dolciani's percent-ratio-proportion charts
Saxon Math answer sheets
- reduced-size samples
- complete set of Saxon answer sheets for downloading (Word document)
note: These are not the answers to Saxon problems.
John Saxon on math being different & John von Neumann on understanding math
sayings
Saxon Math
- Tables of Content for Saxon high school books
Scarsdale
science
secret ballot
- secret ballot in New York Everyday Math
sentence combining & sentence composing
- sentence combining
- Smartest Tractor on Killgallon & 5 ways to combine sentences
- sentence combining exercises
sentence diagramming
- sentence diagramming (in Comments)
Singapore math
- SingaporeMath (topic thread)
- bar modeling
Sybilla Beckmann Article Bar Modeling - Challenging Word Problems (book)
- compared to other curricula
Compare And Contrast - fraction problems
Compare And Contrast Part 3
AnswerSheetFractions6B
- John Hoven's testimony to Congress comparing Singapore to U.S. math curricula
- placement test
Singapore Math Placement Test
- pricing
CompareAndContrast
- slave parents in Singapore
- subtraction has two meanings
- Wall Street Journal article on Singapore Math
- word problems
Singapore Word Problem Sampler 2
Singapore Word Problem Sampler 3
- Happy July Fourth (see comments)
- LoneRangerHomeschoolerReportsIncredibleMathProgress
- More From Lone Ranger
- Price Comparison Saxon Singapore
- Singapore Math student helper
Singapore math scope and sequence
social skills for children
source memory
spelling
- Megawords & sounding out by syllables & spelling research
- The Saxon Math Of Spelling
- Being Your Child's Frontal Lobes
- Great Moments In World History
- Summer Supplement Time
- Summer Supplement Time Part 2
- How To Spell
- How To Spell Part 2
- MoreSpelling
- Liveblogging The Spelling Bee
- teaching spelling through morphemes & book recommendations
- spell check
- bad spelling on job applications
spiral curricula
key words: spirallingstandardized testing
- Iowa Test of Basic Skills
Lone Ranger Homeschooler Reports Incredible Math Progress
- sample SAT problems
Compare And Contrast Part 7
- OutsmartingTheTests
- OutsmartingTheTestPart2
standards & frameworks
state standards & tests
statistics (also see: Monty Hall)
- statistics question
- how can you tell whether A caused B?
- low birth weight paradox
- how good are our best students?
- Doug Sundseth explains Monty Hall
- Sorry, Wrong Number (global cooling)
- Number Watch website
Steven Leinwand
sticking points in learning math (hard problems / troubleshooting / problems that are hard for children to do)
story problems
stress
study skills
subtraction
- study sheet: integers, subtraction, absolute value
- subtraction as the difference between 2 numbers (bar model)
- subtraction has two meanings - bar model lesson - Word doc
- sample 2nd grade bar model: addition & subtraction as comparison
success stories
summer regression, TIMSS GAP, fourth grade slump, spiraling versus teaching to mastery
- Summer Supplement Time
- linking decline in high school scores to elementary school
- research on summer regression
- the time costs of not teaching to mastery
- U.S. fourth graders not doing as well as thought
- Phase 4 topic list, grade 6 class
- comments thread on pre-algebra as algebra
- Comments thread on spiraling in EM
summer supplement
- Summer Supplement
- Summer Supplement Time
- Summer Supplement Time Part 2
- Summer Supplement Time Part 3
- kids who have fallen behind:
Summer Supplement Time Part 4
- Summer Supplement Time Part 5
supplements
- Brain Maths problems from Singapore
There are 3 books, Brain Maths (grades 3 & 4, More Brain Maths (grades 4 & 5), & Even More Brain Maths (grades 5 & 6)
The kids in my Singapore Math class (fall 2005) love these books.
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teacher gifts
teachers' union
teaching & teachers
- 'bad teacher' study
- CareerJournal article on bad teacher study
- Gambill method of teaching algebra in a nutshell
- Smartest Tractor on teaching algebra
- Smartest Tractor's teaching method (algebra in 8th grade) (pdf file)
- secret ballots for teachers
TERC
- Thirteen Quarters In TERC
- Another Gem From Math Forum
- Important Question From Joanne Cobasko Of Socmm
- teacher-parent conflict w/TERC:
Count Your Blessings
- Another Happy School District
textbook construction, publishing, etc.
textbooks design
- page splatter (diving penguin graphic)
- Glencoe page splatter
- Tom Friedman piles on
- Doug Sundseth on ransom note typography
- distance tutors & mathematicallycorrect review of Glencoe
textbooks
- arithmetic we need (Mary Dolciani's life and textbooks)
TIMSS
- Compare And Contrast Part 7
- Compare And Contrast Part 7
- Principal's Guide to Raising Math Achievement (no significant gain in knowledge between 7th & 8th grades)
- school starts soon (repetition of content in each grade)
- TIMSS question for 12th graders: how much ribbon for gift package?
TIMSS & our best students: see 'math achievement'
Tips And Tricks
TRAILBLAZERS
- California review of TRAILBLAZERS
- Compare And Contrast
- Trailblazers playlets
Big Numbers
Compare And Contrast Part 6
(Suzanne uses a strategy to answer 'what is 15-9?')
- Earthbox Day
- Trailblazers Professor Peabody & smart boys
- Trailblazers Professor Peabody plays with his calculator
- Trailblazers Professor Peabody can't figure out his mistake
- Trailblazers Professor Peabody pops a bubble with his nose
- Trailblazers teacher resource page pdf files on many different subjects; none on fractions
- research packet from NSF for schools, to support NSF-funded constructivist curricula
authors of TRAILBLAZERS are also authors of the TRAILBLAZERS studies
- TRAILBLAZERS scope & sequence
- TRAILBLAZERES in Scarsdale & Irvington
trigonometry
typing instruction for kids
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unit conversion- unit conversion (in Comments thread)
- multipliers][Donna Young's online lesson in unit multipliers (many terrific printable manipulatives as well)
usability
U.S. math
US world ranking math achievement (see TIMSS)
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visual learning
vocabulary
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Wickelgren, Wayne- Wickelgren on introducing algebra
- Wayne Wickelgren on algebra in 7th & 8th grade
- Wickelgren on math talent & when to supplement
- Wickelgren on children's lack of motivation to learn math
- late bloomers in math & Wickelgren on children's desire to learn math
- Wayne Wickelgren on mastery of math & on creativity & domain knowledge
- Wickelgren on why math is confusing
- Ingrid & Wayne Wickelgren on why math is confusing
wikis
Wiki how-to
Wiki pages, group
- Visual Learning K Thru 2
- Talking Points DiscussionPage
- Talking Points Discussion
- Gifted And Talented Discussion
Wiki pages, individual
- Anne Dwyer
Anne Dwyer Summer Math Class 2005
- Barry Garelick
Article Help
Everyday Math In DC
- Catherine Johnson
inflexible knowledge narrative
- InterestedTeacher
Chapter Project
More Or Less Pen And Paper
MoreOrLessPaperAndPencil
Mid Chapter Assessment
wiki research
Willingham, Daniel article links
- Allocating Student Study Time: "Massed" versus "Distributed" Practice
- Do Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners Need Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Instruction?
- Inflexible Knowledge: The First Step to Expertise
- Practice Makes Perfect--But Only If You Practice Beyond the Point of Perfection
- The Privileged Status of Story
- Reframing the Mind (a deconstruction of multiple intelligences, published in Education Next)
- Students Remember...What They Think About
- Understanding ADHD
- Why Students Think They Understand When They Don't
- Willingham On Question Of Different Learners
- Summary Of Practice Makes Perfect)
Wisdom of the Crowd
word problems
- comparison of word problems in Singapore & Saxon
- how do you teach your child to solve word problems? ratio and proportion boxes from Saxon & Brown/Dolciani
workbooks
- workbook series
(including online Glencoe Parent & Student Study Guide)
- 3 good math workbook series
working with teachers and principals
worksheets
- graph paper to download
(includes coordinate planes for test-taking & for classroom note taking) b&w & color
- ktm post about free graph paper
- Free Worksheets
- complete set of Saxon worksheets for books through Saxon Homeschool 8/7
These are Word documents that should download to your desktop. You can print them out for every lesson (in every book of the series through 8/7) and write or type the problems in the correct spaces). If you type in the problems, I'd love to get copies to upload to Kitchen Table Math. We'd have a set of Saxon workbooks people could download.
- Out-loud distributive property study sheets
(downloadable Word document - notes on using this sheet are in the Comments thread)
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