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 […]
Today the topic was introduction to exponents. We talked about using tables to organize our thinking and to look for patterns. Using the table, we can show students exponents, what they mean, and how to show that . The patterns in the table show that . Repeat with a base of 6. We see that […]
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