RESOURCES
Sarah Stecher
These resources from Math Medic are designed to save you time while sparking your students’ curiosity.
What Does the Research Say About EFFL?
Get a high-level summary of our recent article in NCTM’s Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12 journal.
Building Thinking Classrooms and EFFL: Can You Do Both?
How to incorporate Liljedahl’s 14 teaching practices into your EFFL classroom.
8 Strategies to Build Understanding of U-substitution
Use this set of prompts and warm-ups to help students gain conceptual understanding of u-substitution.
Using Questions to Move Student Thinking Forward
This is the second post in a two-part series on how we can use questions to draw out and extend student thinking. In the first post, we…
Why Should We EFFL in AP Calculus?
Tips for promoting inquiry and building rigor in AP Calc. I was recently playing “Simon Says” with one of my friend’s young kids. They found the game very entertaining, their brows wrinkled in concentration to
Differential Equations, SISIS, and Compound Interest
How Calculus can be used to extend and deepen previous learning.
Setting the Stage for a Successful New School Year
A collection of our favorite tasks, resources, and activities to start the school year off right!
Using Questions to Help Students Construct Understanding
How will my students do the EFFL activity if I haven’t taught them yet? The key is in the questions you ask and how you ask them.