If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...
“I don’t care about math,” a ninth grade student at my school wrote in her “math-o-graphy” on the first day of class. This kind of apathy is a problem for many students and perhaps an even greater ...
Turns out that sheer intelligence is not enough to become a young math whiz. It also takes a good attention span and training your mind to "self regulate" or focus on the task at hand. The measure for ...