RESOURCES
Sarah Stecher
These resources from Math Medic are designed to save you time while sparking your students’ curiosity.
Setting the Stage for a Successful New School Year in an AP Math Class
The 1st week of class is so important! Use the activities in this blog post to build trust with students and establish norms for groupwork.
Reviewing without Reteaching – Part 1
Why re-teaching may not be the best option for end-of-semester review, and actually may have some problematic effects.
Assessment in the EFFL Classroom
How we use homework, quizzes, and tests to deepen and assess students’ learning.
3 Things I Learned at NCTM
My biggest take-aways from the sessions I attended at the 2023 NCTM Annual Conference.
Why We Should Embrace Inefficiency
When we talk with other teachers, the prevailing themes of our conversations are the desire to teach our students well–and by that we…
5 Tips for Teaching Volume of Solids of Revolution
How to help students solve volume problems flexibly, fluently, and confidently.
Reframing Mistakes in the Math Classroom
One of the greatest challenges of teaching (and what makes it so exhausting) is responding to student ideas in real time. Student contributions can be complex, nuanced, incomplete, incorrect, or hard to comprehend. We do our best to plan for the lesson by anticipating student responses, but the great work of teaching is responding to…
Why Won’t the Math Medic Assessment Platform Grade Student Responses?
Everything you need to know about the features we DIDN’T include in the Math Medic Assessment Platform (and why).
How Do We Assign Homework?
We explain some of our philosophy around homework, with links to several resources you can use to create your homework assignments.