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Why Is Educational Technology So Far Behind?
Money obviously commands more attention that children do. At least that’s certainly what it looks like as we take a stroll around the Internet. When I go to Amazon.com, the site knows me. It...
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Searching For Math Games
Looking for a little assistance here, in two ways: 1. I have some extremely fun “Play The Math” math CDs (circa 2003-2004) from a company called indivisuallearning.com. The three games on the CD are...
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The Online Math League
It’s time once again for my annual invitation to all math teachers of students in second grade up through Algebra: come join the Online Math League! (For people who aren’t long-time readers of this...
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How Would You Teach If You Could Teach Any Way You Wanted?
Let’s say you could create your own dream classroom: you get choose the grade level(s) of your students, the materials you’d use (free from budget restraints), the content you’d teach (with no required...
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The Future of Education: One Teacher’s Prediction
As we all know, a financial crisis is upon us, and I believe that we have every reason to believe that the U.S. education system will be profoundly affected by it. Here’s my crystal-ball-like...
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The American Math Challenge
This year’s American Math Challenge is set for this coming Wednesday and Thursday, October 12th and 13th, 2011. Open to students in kindergarten through 12th grade, this fun contest allows students to...
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I’m Done Giving Paper/Pencil Timed Tests
After 14 years of teaching, I have finally found the solution to one of the biggest annoyances of my third grade math classroom: paper/pencil basic math fact timed tests. Before I describe the...
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Practicing Math Facts Online
This post is a follow-up to yesterday’s post, where I talked about my four-month journey creating www.themathfacts.com. As a third grade 1:1 teacher (meaning that I have a class set of computers...
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Math Facts Made Simple
I love the new intro video over at TheMathFacts.com! If you missed my previous post about it, themathfacts.com is designed to replace paper/pencil timed tests and to motivate students to have fun...
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Resource: Greg Tang Math
Many elementary teachers are already familiar with Greg Tang’s books like The Grapes of Math and The Best of Times. I have also used his Kakooma game (see game description below) in my classroom from...
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Resource: FreeRice.com
This winter, when my third-grade students needed some practice on their basic multiplication facts, I took them over to FreeRice.com. FreeRice.com is a basic quiz site with a twist: for each problem a...
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Resource: TheMathFacts.com
If you teach elementary math and employ paper/pencil timed tests, you’ve got to check out www.themathfacts.com. TheMathFacts.com offers online timed tests that are automatically scored and...
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The Power of a Math Team
This short, powerful video shows how my colleagues and I use a Math Team experience to build school camaraderie and get elementary students to love mathematics. Check it out!
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Customized Math Games for Your Classroom
Sometimes I’ll be getting ready to teach a math lesson, when suddenly I’ll think, “I wish I could find a good game that teaches this content in a more exciting way than just plain practice problems...
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Back to Basics Education
In education, you hear a lot about the need for schools to go back to basics. This argument generally states that the standards taught to children and the specific curricula used to get there are too...
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