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Learning from inventive spelling
Pamela Musick | February 21, 2017Spelling at the emerging level is about learning what kids know and don’t know about reading, writing and spelling....
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Improving learning in the classroom or online with a Wi-Fi document camera
Tom Carson, Natural Philosophy Department Head, Franklin Classical School | February 20, 2017Ever walked into your class and felt overwhelmed by the weight of having to cover so much material in...
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- Higher Education
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Redesigning trigonometry to give students what they need to succeed in calculus
Kirk Trigsted, Senior Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho | February 17, 2017“What is the sine of pi….?” This was a question that I would routinely ask my calculus students at...
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- Higher Education
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Rethinking how we teach math to nonmajors
Robert Watson, Ph.D., and Regina Stone-Hernandez, Ed.D., University of Mount Olive | February 15, 2017For too many students, math does not make sense. Many who proceed to college have struggled with math concepts...
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- Higher Education
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Mining vocabulary words in your elementary classroom
Pamela Musick | February 14, 2017The ultimate goal of learning new vocabulary is to understand the words you are reading and to be able to use them...
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- PreK-12 Education
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Campbell Biology then and now: Why content still counts
Christine Ho, Manager, Pearson | February 13, 2017Campbell Biology has resonated with students and instructors for nearly three decades. Although the field of biology is ever-changing,...
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- Higher Education
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How disproportionality contributes to the gap in behavioral and academic performance
Chris Huzinec, Director of Research, Pearson | February 8, 2017Traditionally, when educators discuss disproportionality, they focus on the overrepresentation of minority students within special education. Realistically, if this...
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- PreK-12 Education
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StatCrunch Contest: Open a new world of data-driven decisions
Diane Hollister, Professor, Reading Area Community College | February 7, 2017StatCrunch. It sounds like a great name for a breakfast cereal for math nerds, but it’s a powerful piece...
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- Higher Education
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Reversing the trend in discipline data disproportionality
Cheryl Axley, Program Manager, Review360 Pearson | February 6, 2017The numbers reflecting the disproportionate representation of minority students involved with school disciplinary procedures are staggering. The numbers are...
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- PreK-12 Education
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Tools and techniques for visualizing concepts in Calculus and higher math
Robert Banik, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University | February 1, 2017When I first started teaching Calculus in the fall of 2012, I found that my students were having problems...
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- Higher Education