Author: dhabecker
A teacher recently asked me to co-plan a lesson with her and then co-teach it. She wanted to teacher scatterplots and found this activity, but she wanted my support in planning and teaching the lesson.: https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5ae8aa5436ae340a1d96ad4c We began by printing the Teacher Guide to see if the activity’s author provided any suggestions for pacing and […]
Take a moment to solve this problem using any method you wish… A farm has a total of 480 llamas and alpacas. of the number of llamas at the farm are equal to of the number of alpacas. How many more alpacas than llamas are there? I’ll wait. . . . . . Can I […]
How do your expectations influence the performance of your students? The answer may surprise you, and, like many influential scientific studies, it starts with some dumb rats and some smart rats. Bob Rosenthal, PhD, is an experimental psychologist has spent the last four decades researching how student performance might be influenced by our expectations. In […]
Every three years the OECD administers and publishes the Programme for International Student Assessment, better known as PISA, which evaluates 15 year-old students around the world to determine how well their education system has prepared them for life after compulsory schooling. This test is important because it allows the performance of educational systems to be […]