What is the hardest question a teacher has to answer? As teachers, especially math teachers, we face this most painful question all too often, rarely do we have a good answer to it, and even more rarely does our answer enlighten students. The question is less a query and more a bleating call for relevance. …
To make its workers more productive, the Western Electric Company, makers of phones and other parts for the Bell Telephone System, conducted one of the great scientific experiments of all time. The researchers increased the brightness of the lighting at a plant in Hawthorne, Illinois just outside of Chicago, incrementally, while measuring worker output. They …
“How do you keep students engaged in math while they are having fun?” We think we have come up with the perfect solution for teachers and parents, the What if Math Summer Challenge. Choose a Lab from the Explore menu and mail it to your students. They learn problem solving, spreadsheets, coding, a lot of …
ATMNE Annual Conference, October 29 and 30, 2015 in Portland, Maine Spreadsheet Math: A Powerful Tool for the Learning and Practice of Mathematics Friday October 30, 2:15 – 3:15. Come and learn about the power of spreadsheets as tools to encourage creativity and challenge for students of all ages and abilities to learn mathematical …
Our goal is to enable every student to use mathematics to become a better creative problem solver. In this digital age, awash in data and technology tools for building and using models to analyze and solve problems, we believe a new approach to problem solving is required. Our approach, based on functions, uses spreadsheets as …
The words curious and curiosity do not appear in the Mathematics Common Core Standards document, yet they are arguably the most important words in mathematics education. If there is any single habit of mind or critical skill I want our students to learn, don’t you agree, it is to be curious, to question, to experiment, …
The key to the digital age is also the key to learning algebra. Despite what many of us may believe, our digital age did not began with the microprocessor, or the personal computer, or even the iPhone; it began with a single amazingly simple idea by a quiet man who few of us would today …
There are a wide variety of financial literacy problems. This is the kind of problem that appears on many tests. It does not ask you directly to find the cost of a taxi ride which includes both a fixed and variable amount. See if you can use this Lab to make this problem and problems …
This program started my career in digital learning. I bought my first computer, an Apple II in February 1978 on their first anniversary. I talked my wife into letting me play with a computer for doing my checkbook and turning our houselights on and off. Though I was an educator who had worked with film …
Are you a coffee drinker? Small daily expenses like coffee can quickly add up. By using spreadsheets to organize cost, you can monitor how much you’re really spending.
