Good and bad questions

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The team at teachthought gives a great little reminder about what good and bad questions are. You need to be specific certainly with children who have learning disabilities.

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Gestures help learning

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Susan Wagner Cook, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa, has conducted numerous studies with various scenarios and it is confirmed that children learn better when they can see gestures while hearing the explanations.

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Tetris with fractions

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Mathigon has a wonderful new application. It’s like Tetris, but you have to know the factor of each shape in order to rotate it into position.Entertaining and educational, helps to solidify their knowledge on fractions.

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How much do teachers know about fractions

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Well, SPOILERALERT, not much or at least not enough. See the report by Copur-Gencturk, Y. Teachers’ conceptual understanding of fraction operations: results from a national sample of elementary school teachers.

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Games are so important and fun

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Sarah Carter shares one of her favorite games via twitter and her website mathequalslove.net She highlights the game Left Center Right that she got from the dollar store. Just to make the point here that manipulatives do not have to be expensive to be worthwhile and effective.

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