education
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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
The TpT Teacher Appreciation Sale is going on now and everything in my store on sale for 25% off with code THANKYOU26. And there are lots of other ways for teachers to feel appreciated, from school or parent sponsored lunches to administrators giving teachers a break. One year my school had a massage therapist come…
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Spring Refresh: Teaching at the End of the School Year
Spring is here! Buds are sprouting, leaves are starting to grow back on the trees. Renewal is in the air. We’re settling back into routines after spring break—and if your experience was anything like ours, the weather couldn’t quite make up its mind. We saw a little bit of everything, and while temperatures dipped below…
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“I’m not a math person! I’m bad at memorization.” How to help students understand math instead of giving them step-by-step instructions
Explaining math conceptually helps students in the long run. Many people see math as just a bunch of facts you need to memorize, like people and dates in history. While definitely not my area of expertise, I know that most history education today has shifted away from the rote memorization of names, places, and dates.…
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Welcome to EZ Math Discovery!
Why I’m passionate about discovering math and helping students to do so. Discovery Learning My first semester in grad school to receive my teaching license, the school where I was observing used the textbook Discovering Geometry. It was so different from the way I learned geometry and I was amazed. The students in the urban…