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Most of us heard of the correlation between math and music – musical structures are mathematical in nature, of course, but can learning, or listening to, music really help us to learn math?

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Decades of educational research demonstrate that during the years between elementary school and high school, many students disengage from math and don’t regain their interest—to the detriment of their later schooling, and even their adult careers.

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MathsNet.com is the main hub of the MathsNet suite of web sites. Here you will find access by subscription to online courses.

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Logical interactive froggy puzzle!

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Thousands of first-year students at Ontario community colleges are taking catch-up courses in basic math skills — fractions, decimals, percentages — that they should have learned in grades 6, 7 and 8, according to an alarming new study.

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She was, according to this report, the worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City, where she has taught since 2007.

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At the Oklahoma Digital Learning Summit last week, an Oklahoma STEM specialist asked me what math products I liked and I mentioned the following:

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A surprisingly common sentiment among some programmers is that “computer science is math.” Certainly, computer science as a rigorous discipline emerged from mathematics.

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We hear this everywhere – students should be doing “real-world” math and they should be applying what they learn in math to “real-world situations.” Textbooks and math resources advertise their “real-world problem solving” experiences and “real-life math applications.”

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My friend MarieBjerede said, “There are no really good math apps out there.”  She comes to that conclusion based on “promise of technology has been to make learning more personalized and engaging” including these five features:

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Ko's Journey is America's Favorite Math Game.
A rite of passage your middle school students will love.

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The best math sites on the web.

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Ideas for teaching all about fractions.

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Online Geoboard - works great with SMARTBoard

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"I know for me, I'm a lawyer because I was bad at [science and math].  (Laughter.)  All lawyers in the room, you know it's true.  We can't add and subtract, so we argue.  (Laughter.)"

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Perfect activities to use with any Interactive Whiteboard

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