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A KEY TO EFFECTIVE TEACHING: OBSERVATION
Leonardo da Vinci’s journal After I was elected on the school board, a principal introduced me to a middle school math teacher whose students had averaged 98% advanced or proficiency in Algebra 1 over...
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DAYDREAMING IS GOOD
Updated – August 29, 2020 I came across a Wall Street Journal article with the headline that read, “Wandering Mind Heads Straight Toward Insight,” and the sub headline read, “Researchers Map the...
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WHY I ALWAYS HATED THE “B” GRADE
Updated – August 30, 2020 An article in The Atlantic entitled “Letter Grades Deserve an F” by Jessica Lahey struck a cord and inspired this post. Ms. Lahey writes, “points-based grading undermines...
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WARNING: DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO ELEVATEDMATH.COM BEFORE READING THIS
Herein contain requirements for instructors (including parents) to teach math to their students with the Elevated Math program. First Requirement Instructors should read the Teacher Notes before...
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Building Confidence In Math Class
Photography by Ta-Duc Updated September 9, 2020 When I ran for school board, one question was asked a number of times, usually by students. “How would I provide more teacher/student interactions?” I...
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Absolute Value: The Elevated Math Approach
Math students who begin their math journey into absolute value usually evaluate expressions with absolute value as “always positive.” That is, until they encounter the absolute value of zero, and then...
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Don’t Be Afraid of Making a Mistake. Flip Your Classroom.
Articles abound on how traditional teaching methods deny students the chance to learn from their mistakes. But in this pandemic, when teachers are forced to engage in remote learning, they are more...
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My Last Math Class
This blogpost was written four years ago, but we are posting it again as it demonstrates how teachers can make huge differences in their students’ lives by adapting to their educational needs. Today,...
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Healing Math Phobia
We hear students say, “I’m not good at math” or “Math isn’t my thing”, especially after receiving a bad test score. These comments are likely subtle signs they are afraid of math. If so, we need to...
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What Albert Einstein Can Teach Us?
by Elevated Math We might not understand all that Einstein discovered, but from the things he has said we can glean some of his thought process and perhaps use that to instruct our students in math....
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