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The Math Learning Center Blog

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As teachers, we are continually challenged to find multiple ways to reach all students when teaching mathematics. Guided math can help you develop practical techniques, instructional strategies and routines that allow you to work with your students in small groups at their level of understanding and need. October Dates: Oct 22 Chicago North, IL Oct 23 Chicago South, IL Oct 24 Champaign, IL Oct 25...
Jami Smith
Watch this short video to learn more about free downloadable math practice books from The Math Learning Center. Or, click here and start downloading now!
Jami Smith
Watch this short video to learn more about free downloadable lesson plans and student activities available from The Math Learning Center. Or, click here and start downloading now!
Jami Smith
Computational fluency means more than quickly producing correct answers. It requires conceptual understanding and is exhibited through efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility. As you guide your students to mathematical fluency, you will give them many opportunities to construct relationships among numbers to make sense of basic facts and be able to retrieve them. Students who attain fluency with...
Hannah Chandler
Working in pairs and small groups Giving students opportunities to collaborate helps build a strong sense of community in your classroom, and research shows that students learn better when they learn together. Working together gives students the chance to grapple with problems, consider different points of view, and challenge and support each other, all of which contribute to stronger...
Hannah Chandler
The Common Core State Standards identify eight mathematical practices that characterize the ways in which mathematically proficient students engage with mathematics. The content standards describe what students are doing in mathematics, and the practices describe how they are doing it. For many teachers, these practices represent a dramatic shift in how their students are expected to learn and...
Martha Ruttle
Asking students questions and inviting them to ask questions of their own can help you discover and address their individual strengths and needs. You can tier questions and problems according to level of challenge, generally progressing from well-rooted, shared understandings toward higher-level work. This allows all students to contribute to the discussion as learning is constructed. Follow-up...
Carrie Baker
Increased Rigor With the tighter focus of the CCSSM comes greater depth and increased rigor. You’ll need to offer students many opportunities to develop conceptual understanding, practice key skills, and apply their skills and understandings to novel situations and problems. To support students in this rigorous approach to mathematics, you’ll need to be comfortable with the mathematics too. We...
Martha Ruttle
Creating an environment that supports risk taking In a collaborative classroom, students share their work, think aloud, ask questions, and work together. For this sharing and collaboration to be effective, they must feel comfortable taking risks and making mistakes. You can help students understand that mistakes are a very valuable part of the learning process and that working through mistakes and...
Hannah Chandler
Just as your students have different learning styles, intelligence strengths, preferred tools, and ways to express themselves, they also have preferences about social interaction. All of these preferences can powerfully affect learning. Many students enjoy games and collaborative investigations. Some relish whole-group debates and thrive on the lively exchange that emerges in classroom discussions...