The Math Learning Center Blog

Many people working to improve our educational system appear to be looking backward. They fix on measures of success that were deemed worthy in the past, and they strive to have our schools perform still better in meeting these measures. The world, however, is changing. And many of these past indicators of achievement are becoming less important for today’s students. Tony Wagner is one of my...

Our continued growth means we need to add to our Customer Support team. For a complete job description and application process see our posting on Mac's List. No phone calls please. Jami is a media specialist for MLC.

We’ve been talking with educators at conferences, in workshops, and online about how they use (and love) our apps. This feedback is critical to making sure our apps stay useful and relevant in your classroom. Earlier this summer we updated the Geoboard, Number Rack, and Number Pieces apps. Next on our to-do list was Number Line. The Number Line app has always been a great way for students to...

What do you know about your own brain and the brains of others? More specifically, what do you know about the brains of the students in your classroom? And how do you use this information as you teach math and other subjects? I’ve just completed writing a book, Brain Science for Educators and Parents. It is available free! The 10 chapters cover a wide range of topics, including: Brain science...

Learning List , a K-12 instructional materials evaluation service, recently released independent alignment reports and an editorial review of Bridges in Mathematics second edition. Each grade level K-5 was found to address 100% of the Common Core State Standards. Number Corner second edition was also reviewed. Grades K-5 were found to address on average 95% of the Common Core State Standards...

We’ve listened to your feedback and we’re updating our growing collection of free math apps. In this short video, I’ll show you everything that’s new and improved in the latest version of the geoboard app. Jami Smith is a media specialist for MLC.

MLC will attend the annual CAMT conference in Houston this year! Stop by our booth to try our free math apps , receive a giveaway and learn more about Bridges in Mathematics. Bridges in Mathematics, second edition, is a comprehensive K–5 curriculum that is rigorous, coherent, engaging, and accessible to all learners. The curriculum focuses on developing students’ deep understandings of...

Human intelligence and computer intelligence are quite different. It is, however, common to think of a computer as a “brain” and to compare its intelligence-like capabilities to that of humans. In the computer field, the term singularity is used in talking about the (potential, future) time when computers become more intelligent than humans. Recently I’ve written about mini-singularities—the...

I appreciate the wonderful introduction in the previous MLC Blog entry. This is my first of a series of occasional blog posts, and I look forward to writing more. More than 8,000 people have downloaded Using Math Games and Word Problems to Increase the Math Maturity of K-8 Students , a free book from Information Age Education (IAE). The book emphasizes using simple, inexpensive games and math...

We’d like to welcome Dr. David Moursund as a regular blog contributor for the Math Learning Center. Dave has been actively engaged in teaching teachers since 1965. He is one of the founders of MLC and has served on our Board of Directors since its beginning in 1976. He is now a retired faculty member from the University of Oregon, where he taught for about 40 years in the Mathematics and Computer...