Summer Break T-Shirts for Teachers
You’ve worked hard all school year, and now you get to enjoy your summer. Celebrate your summer vacation with a fun teacher t-shirt. Great as a gift for a teacher […]
Teaching Resources
Your Math Homework isn’t Working
Why Are you Assigning Homework? Most teachers say that it is for independent practice. To help their students master the skills and concepts taught in math class. To provide students […]
Getting your Students to Engage in Productive Struggle
Productive struggle is a valuable skill and a powerful tool in the classroom. If your students will participate and engage in productive struggle, they will master the concepts being presented […]
How I Give all of My Students as Much Practice as they Need
Without Holding Anyone Back One of the most effective strategies you can implement as a teacher – especially a math teacher – is to provide your students with as much […]
Going over Homework the Next Day in Class is Not Immediate Feedback
Perhaps one of the greatest fallacies facing the way we do math education today is the thought that going over homework the next day in class qualifies as providing our […]
Tackling the Learning Loss Caused by the Pandemic
The last two school years have been tough on everyone on account of the pandemic. Teachers had to learn to teach through new mediums under changing circumstances while tackling new […]
Help Your Math Students Learn from their Mistakes
Thomas Edison famously said, “I didn’t fail 10,000 times, I found 10,000 ways that didn’t work.” As educators, we love quotes like these that encourage our students to press forward […]
An Effective and Affordable Way to Celebrate Student Success
Celebrating student success is a powerful yet under utilized tool in an educator’s tool belt. Think of how fun it is to be celebrated. It’s a good feeling. It makes […]
5 Things Teachers Should do with Their Stimulus Money
This post contains affiliate links to products that do not affect your price but help support this website. Teachers are about to receive their third round of stimulus checks from […]
Encourage Your Students to Take Risks, Experiment, and Make Mistakes
There are lots of benefits when students try new ways to solve a problem. Unfortunately, the way we currently structure our instructional design promotes memorization and discourages experimentation and risks. […]