Compiling the Station
At this moment in time, you have taken one math standard and broken it into all the prerequisite skills needed to accomplish this task. For example: If the standard was […]
Math Teacher Blog
Differentiation via Remediation Stations – part 4 – Practice
When a coach teaches an athlete the proper form of some skill (swinging a gulf club, throwing a football, shooting a basketball, etc.), the coach first demonstrates, then (s)he has […]
Differentiation via Remediation Stations – part 3 – the RETEACH
Have you ever tried to learn a new skill, but didn’t catch everything the first time you were taught? What did you do? I recently had to replace some pieces […]
Differentiation via Remediation Stations – part 2 – The Outline
Mrs. Greene’s class has been working on long division, and like many classrooms around the country, almost half of the students are not getting it, and about to be […]
Differentiation via Remediation Stations – part 1
Solving a math problem involves correctly performing a series of operations. Consider all the skills needed to add mixed numbers: The teacher can teach adding mixed numbers until she’s blue […]
Transforming Teacher Relationships on Teams (by Matt Foster of TeamTomEducation.com)
By Matt Foster After car duty, one teacher walked into his partner’s room and complained, “I just can’t stand working with her! All she does is talk about herself and […]
Classroom Posters
Golden Rule of Algebra Be Rational, Get Real […]
5 Things ALL Teachers Should Do this Summer
Duh! Teaching is hard. You need to recharge your battery. So travel, sleep in, vacation, eat out, do what you need to do to recover from the year you just […]
Epiphany from Error – the Mistake I Made that Revolutionized the Way I Teach Math
In my first year teaching intensive math to Pre-Algebra students, I was very frustrated with my students’ lack of basic skills. So I began teaching the fundamentals: times tables, […]
How to Use Data to Drive Instruction
Data driven instruction is the new craze in education. Before that it was cooperative learning groups. Before that it was learning styles…. Remember that brief moment in time when web-quests […]