• TIMSS 1995 released items
  
• A systematic review of the impact of summative assessment and tests on students' motivation for learning (bibliography)

• How to Stop a Bully
  
• Xtreme behaviorism, teaching, and scripts
  
• Omega 3 fatty acids & Omegabrites autism & bipolar disorder
  
• cognitive enhancers in 30 years
  

• Flies can learn
  

• 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

• Trespassers in Wonderland

Ben

• Ben's summer program 2005:
  Summer Supplement Time Part 3
  
• Summer Doldrums (one day you'll thank me)
  

best students here & abroad

• problems top 10% 9-year olds can do
  

• instructions from Ken on links
  

blooki

• Kitchen Table Math Is A Blooki
  
• Beyond The Cutting Edge
  
• Blooki Help Wanted
  

book recommendations

• reading recommendations from ktm readers
  

bookless classroom

• Bookless Classroom Wins Award
  
• Carolyn on the 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

• boys and girls in college math classes
  

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

• grunt and spit
  
• naked numbers
  
• plug and chug
  
• Ken's buzzwords
  

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

• Tightrope
  
• KDeRosa on Tightrope

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

• Falling off the math cliff
  

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

• Wickelgren on children's lack of motivation to learn math
  

Chinese teachers

• Teacher Training in China
  
• Chinese teachers educational background
  

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

• Walter Russell Mead on a U.S. 'bac'
  

college admissions

• John Tierney on boys and college admissions
  
• Kenyon College director on male & female college applicants
  

color announcer for math practice

• Barry's color announcer for math practice
  

color theory

• see Comments thread
  
• color theory at Adobe
  

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

• list of constructivist math curricula
  

constructivist math tests

• Outsmarting The Tests
  
• Outsmarting The Test Part 2
  

constructivist rhymes

• plug and chug
  
• naked numbers
  

contracts

• student self-assessment form from Smartest Tractor
  

crossing midline

• Precalculus Assessment Test And Crossing Midline
  
• Carolyn Morgan Use The Blackboard
  
• Slide Rules
  

data mining

• Steve on SchoolMax

deadlines

• deadlines
  

decimals

• converting a repeating decimal to a fraction
  
• Math Forum lesson on converting a repeating decimal to a fraction
  

Dick and Jane

• 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

• Homeschool Supercenter
  
• Summer Supplement Time Part 4
  

distance learning (also: online learning)

• Moodle software (may be good?)

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

• Happy July Fourth
  

Don Rumsfeld

• metacognition & math & Don Rumsfeld
  

dyslexia

• Shaywitz, Sally interview:
  left occipital temporal region

ed school

• NYU ed school textbooks
  
• textbooks in the NYU bookstore
  

education and inequality

• Alan Greenspan on rising inequality
  
• rising inequality, part 2
  

educational psycholopgy

• constructivist flow chart (links to overviews of ed pscyh

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

• KUMON & speed
  

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)