One of my favorite PD sites, EdWeb, recently offered a free webinar (with CE Certificate) on Returning to Rigorous Mathematics. Here’s a preview:
As students return to a hopefully more typical school year, learning is likely to be anything but typical. Student and teacher experiences over the past 18 months have varied greatly and classrooms are filled with students representing a wider range of learning needs than ever before. The challenge for teachers is to help each student move their mathematics learning forward. While it will take time for most students to return to typical “on-grade-level” expectations, we must support students to move forward rather than picking up instruction where “regular school” left off in March 2020. Responding to this wide range of learners is part of the job in education; the pandemic has made this part of the work more prominent in many classrooms.
I have several articles over December that discuss this issue (links won’t work until publication date):
What is ‘Technical Math’–December 10, 2021 (this article)
Returning to Rigorous Mathematics–December 16, 2021
Math Scores Drop Again–December 17, 2021
If you’re struggling with math success in your classroom, here are some more resources offered by Ask a Tech Teacher:
Online Math Resources (long list)
#teachmath
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
Good teaching always targets learning from where a student’s at and helping them reach what they need to know. These look like great posts, Jacqui. I’m not sure that I’ll get to them all. It’s a busy time of year.
And, rigorous math feels good. Exercising the brain is a good thing!
It sure is. I’ve been exercising a few other muscles the last few days – looking forward to exercising the brain again soon.
I’ve fallen in love with my Peloton Tread. I think it makes my brain work better, too!
Wonderful!