Category Archives: Learning

The top 20 principles of Teaching & Learning

Posted on September 10, 2024 by drjimo

From InnerDrive. The top 20 principles of Teaching & Learning

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WALDO – Workflowing the Amazing Lesson Design Outline

Posted on August 14, 2023 by drjimo

This Google doc is comprehensive teaching methods course and education research course rolled up into one document organized into clickable links. It is compiled by Miguel Guhlin. It include most all of the aspects of the teaching enterprise (including pre-assessment, … Continue reading →

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Instrumental and Relational Understanding

Posted on February 8, 2021 by drjimo

Good article on instrumental and relational understanding. Focus on Relational Understanding

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Tostitos fiesta bowl – some of the best highlights of all time

Posted on July 12, 2020 by drjimo

https://twitter.com/drolsen314/status/1282391894664851456?s=21

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Graphicacy

Posted on November 16, 2019 by drjimo

Good summary of what graphicacy is, especially early graphicacy in children.  Click to access espresso_22_early_graphicacy.pdf This definition of graphicacy does not seem to be comprehensive enough to include spatial sense, but is an important subset, or component of, spatial … Continue reading →

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Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later. (And by the way your son, too.)

Posted on August 8, 2018 by drjimo

Good opinion-editorial piece. I think it does deemphasize conceptual understanding problem-solving and may over-emphasize practice, but overall this is a good article. I like the analogy of doing math in playing a musical instrument. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/opinion/stem-girls-math-practice.html

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Wow, Annie Forest’s VLOG Made Me Flashback

Posted on February 12, 2018 by drjimo

While listening to Annie Forest’s vlog at http://showyourthinkingmath.blogspot.com/2017/04/small-changes-that-make-big-impact.html  my life kinda flashed before my eyes! As further background, Mrs. Forest is highlighting an excellent article, titled, “Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say!”  Author: Reinhart, Steven C.;  Source: Mathematics Teaching in the Middle … Continue reading →

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Educational technology that helps kids learn — and doesn’t

Posted on March 2, 2017 by drjimo

Good Article: Silicon Valley teacher: Don’t confuse educational technology that helps kids learn — and doesn’t https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/03/01/silicon-valley-teacher-dont-confuse-educational-technology-that-helps-kids-learn-and-doesnt/?utm_term=.f42cdd0ff493

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Stick that in your head

Posted on September 19, 2016 by drjimo

Here’s a ‘quote’ I came up with on one of my runs one day. Someday I should turn this into a lecture. Perhaps uttered at the end of a class period: Stick that in your head, so that when you … Continue reading →

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Parenting, math, and the Growth Mindset

Posted on March 23, 2016 by drjimo

https://www.youcubed.org/handout-for-parents/

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