Apr 27 2015

5 Ways to Create Better Math Problems

R emember that Singapore math problem that went viral? The one about Cheryl’s birthday. Lots of people had something to say about it: It’s too difficult. How are parents supposed to help with math homework? That’s why the Common Core Math Standards are a terrible idea. Totally unrelated, but people used the viral Singapore math problem Read More

Apr 04 2015

5 Ways to Double Enrollment for your K-12 College Summer Program

So you got the funding. Terrific. Now to find 30 middle school students who want to spend six weeks in the Summer writing poetry on campus. No, you said in the proposal that you’d get 40 students. And that they’d be from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM with a B average in math. Doesn’t matter how Read More

Mar 16 2015

4 Tips to Create Learner Centered Classrooms: From Pre-K thru College

Students doing group work Where does Learning Take Place? Whenever I ask this question in my workshops, even seasoned educators tell me that learning takes place in the work that students produce or they gesture to the walls and ceiling, “Here. Learning is all around us.” Learning isn’t in the classroom or in books or Read More

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