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The elephant in the classroom

David W. posted an article on - Nov 28, 2009, 7:43 pm
Buy this Mathematicians have Great Powers PiFactory tee-shirt JO BOALER’s research into what works and what doesn’t inside a math classroom has gone a lot further than just watching, lite...
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Lakatos, the Jack Kerouac of math

David W. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 4:15 pm
Buy this Sierpinski triangle design on a PiFactory tee-shirt “WHEN will I need any of this in real life?” is such a common question in a math classroom that it is a cliché. At one level it is a...
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Wizard math… day 2

David W. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 4:42 pm
Buy this Homage to a Square PiFactory tee-shirt WE’D LOOKED at the sequence generated when you take a hexagon and steadily add more hexagons. It gives a linear rule. Some students got this easi...
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Wizard math

David W. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 3:29 pm
Buy this Mathematicians have Great Powers PiFactory tee-shirt THERE are 35 players standing in a circle. As the games wizard walks round the circle she kills every second player until only player sur...
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Grading gets an F

David W. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 4:05 pm
Buy this Persian Geometry design on a PiFactory tee-shirt THE PRINCIPAL of my school has bravely initiated a discussion about whether or not D and F grades should be used by teachers. The argument go...
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Take it nice and slow

David W. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 4:14 pm
Buy this Sierpinski triangle design on a PiFactory tee-shirt AS KIDS move into adolescence they need to become less impulsive and more reflective. So the brain’s output controls in an adolescen...
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No gain from the pain of testing

David W. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 9:39 am
Buy this Homage to a Square PiFactory tee-shirt HIGH_STAKES testing on the rise since 2002 and No Child Left Behind, may have lead to more hours spent on reading and math in schools, but there have b...
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We should be teaching mathematical thinking

David W. posted an article on - Jul 4, 2009, 6:50 am
Buy this Mathematicians have Great Powers PiFactory tee-shirt The use of IT in the math classroom raises implications for pedagogy in the math classroom. This brief discusses the purpose of math edu...
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Avis foregoes the restroom and expresses some geometry

David W. posted an article on - Jun 30, 2009, 11:33 am
Buy this Sierpinski triangle design on a PiFactory tee-shirt AVIS was in my Geometry class this year. Or, occasionally he was in my Geometry class. For a few minutes at a time. Avis is not disruptiv...
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Behaviorism 101

David W. posted an article on - Dec 29, 2008, 3:59 pm
Buy this Sierpinski triangle design on a PiFactory tee-shirt RATS working in close collaboration around the clock have successfully trained a human being to do their bidding for hours, even days on e...
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Hope and change in my classroom

David W. posted an article on - Dec 20, 2008, 9:16 pm
Get math mind maps from The PiFactory AS A HIGH-SCHOOL teacher I’m hoping that the election of Barrack Obama will bring hope and change to my classroom. Even a couple of quite simple changes co...
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Assessment… a new sort of gradebook

David W. posted an article on - Dec 14, 2008, 5:14 pm
Buy this Homage to a Square PiFactory tee-shirt WHAT could authentic assessment look like in the classroom? For four years I have been experimenting in my math classroom to replace percentage and le...
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Competitive grading still sabotages good teaching

David W. posted an article on - Dec 4, 2008, 1:27 pm
Buy this Eratosthenes Net on a PiFactory tee-shirt TWELVE years ago a professor and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford wrote a paper entitled Competitive Grading Sabotages Good Teaching. I found the p...
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Win, win not fail, fail

David W. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2008, 10:48 pm
Buy this design on a PiFactory tee-shirt GRADING day, end of the first quarter. After a long day writing individual assessments, I have some envy for my colleague teachers who have been punching in p...
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Working inside the black box

David W. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2008, 4:23 pm
Click here to buy this Eratosthenes Net PiFactory tee-shirt YET MORE research is now available to confirm that alpha-numeric grading and traditional testing not only do nothing to promote learning&he...
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