Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This brief examines two interventions aimed at reducing math anxiety in high school students. The study skills intervention, focusing on spaced studying and self-testing, proved more effective in improving math performance than the emotion regulation intervention. Read more »
This brief explores teaching practices that foster thinking classrooms, including engaging tasks, oral task delivery, random groupings, vertical non-permanent surfaces, dynamic room organization, answering keep-thinking questions, managing flow, levelling at the bottom, and process-oriented assessment. Read more »
In this lesson, students practice adding and subtracting polynomial expressions. They watch a video about a complicated food order and discuss the idea of combining like items to simplify the order. Students use math manipulatives to explore how to use addition and subtraction to simplify polynomial... Read more »
Created by: Samaya Williams
Date Updated: July 18th, 2024
Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
Students will recall properties of exponents and explore different methods of multiplying binomials. Students will apply this knowledge to multiplying more advanced polynomial expressions or multiplying polynomial expressions in the context of a geometry setting. Read more »
Created by: Samaya Williams
Date Updated: November 1st, 2023
Beyond FOILing
This math strategy encourages students to deepen their math understanding. Students conduct an interview with a partner to help them ask meaningful questions, have productive discourse, use academic language, and reflect metacognitively. Read more »
Created by: Samaya Williams
October 10th, 2023
In this lesson, students will explore how to find the surface area of prisms and pyramids. Students will discover the general formulas for finding surface area of prisms and pyramids and are introduced to the surface area of spheres and hemispheres. Students will apply what they learn to create a composite... Read more »
Created by: Samaya Williams
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
Surface Area of Prisms and Pyramids
