Study: Intuitive number sense may help enhance math skills Intuitive number games -- those asking students to approximate amounts, lengths or other standards without counting or measuring the items -- may help improve students' ability to solve math problems, according to a recent study. Researchers found that engaging students' "intuitive number sense" helped them solve easier problems about 25% faster and more difficult problems about 15% faster than a control group. Science World Report (1/29) Other News  | Empower Greater Teacher Effectiveness
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 | Vt. students to create personalized learning plans to help them reach goals Each student in Vermont soon will be asked to develop personalized learning plans tailored to their career interests and future goals. The state Department of Education has launched a website to help students, families and educators prepare for the effort, which will begin next year with seventh- and ninth-grade students. Speaking to a high school's students and staff, Gov. Peter Shumlin said the plans will help all students. "The idea here is -- whether you are dyslexic like me and don't learn traditionally or whether you excel traditionally or whether you're somewhere in the middle -- our job is to have an educational system where everybody succeeds and everybody learns to their potential," he said. Brattleboro Reformer (Vt.)/The Associated Press (1/30)  |
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 | Tips to help create a scope and sequence for the common core Some school districts may be tempted to delay -- or even forgo -- the development of scope and sequence documents for the Common Core State Standards, Bill Honig, chairman of the Instructional Quality Commission and former California state superintendent of public instruction, writes in this commentary. However, such "blueprints" are needed to help educators effectively roll out the new standards, he notes. Honig shares ideas -- based on best practices in one district -- and additional resources to help districts start the process. EdSource (1/29) | Workforce training expands for high-school students in N.J. Career-training programs for high-school students are growing in some areas of New Jersey. The Monmouth County Vocational School District offers eight full-time and 16 shared-time programs. Linda Eno, principal of the district's biotechnology career academy, noted that about 85% of the students declare a major in science, technology, engineering or math. Greater Media Newspapers (N.J.) (1/28) Other News | Fostering student engagement with the flip In the quest to spend more class time doing meaningful mathematics, teachers have increasingly turned to technology to support student leaning. One recent model is the flipped classroom. Reflections on the design and implementation of the flipped instruction model in two mathematics classrooms are discussed in the February free preview article of Mathematics Teacher.
Key sessions on CCSSM implementation The countdown is on for the 2014 NCTM Interactive Institute Professional Development Series "Cutting to the 'Common Core,'" and the program, presentations and speaker lineup are impressive! Join NCTM in Orlando, Feb. 14-15, for the elementary, middle school, high school or school-leaders institute to get answers to your questions on implementing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in the classroom. Register by Jan. 31 -- bring a team and take advantage of group savings! |  | There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken, American journalist and essayist | | | | NCTM SmartBrief aggregates published news and editorial content from diverse sources. The content of NCTM SmartBrief does not necessarily reflect the positions of NCTM or the views of its leadership, and the viewpoints expressed or implied should not be interpreted as official NCTM positions. | Please contact one of our specialists for advertising opportunities, editorial inquiries, job placements, or any other questions.
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