Jessica Bernards and Wendy Fresh have a broad set of skills related to making math instruction engaging and effective. This blog will provide you with multiple opportunities to learn from them about using Kahoot! and Desmos in the remote classroom. Included are four free activities and a free webinar.

Each day, there are more schools closing temporarily and moving to an eLearning virtual environment to protect administrators, teachers, staff, and students. It sounds so simple: just put classes online.

Today’s math problem has been experienced by everyone who has ever taught a math lesson: students simply are not interested in learning the lesson you need to teach and one that they need to know. I’ve developed a simple technique I’d like to share with you. A specific, tangible way you can use to get your class interested.

Data means graphs. Significant, relevant, real-world graphs. And yet, in most math courses, students only see the graphs they find in their textbooks. Years ago there were valid excuses for us using contrived graphs. That is not the case today.

Like many educators, I read the 2020 Annual Gates letter with great anticipation. Their work in education over the last 20 years has made a strong impact on U.S. education, which is now admittedly their biggest challenge. I want to speak on behalf of my peers, teachers, who are capable of making the changes needed in policy and reform, but seldom get the chance to do so.

During the last decade, higher education and P-20 systems have implemented a plethora of initiatives designed to increase student success, and many of these efforts have focused on mathematics, a frequent stumbling block for students in college.  The results to date have been promising yet sporadic.

Many math teachers, me included, focus on teaching more than learning. Here is one thing you can do tomorrow to improve learning in your math class.

Instead of perfecting our lectures and us being the active ones, we needed to switch things up and create activities for the students to do to engage them in the learning.

Portability is an approach that is required in Illinois for all public high schools. It is a way to ensure fidelity of a transitional math implementation. This video explains the road to portability.

Transitional math courses provide high school seniors a new experience with math, allowing the student to increase their college readiness in math and gain placement. States and colleges provide placement in a variety of ways. It’s common to still require the use of a placement test or some kind of cumulative, common exit exam for the course.