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Sarah Stecher

These resources from Math Medic are designed to save you time while sparking your students’ curiosity.

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All About Mini-Games

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

A quick, simple, and fun way to get your class period started.

Establishing Norms in the Math Classroom

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

In this post we discuss our math and group work norms and how we introduce and uphold them throughout the year.

Assessments in AP Calculus

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

At this point in the school year you’re probably getting ready to give your first AP Calculus test. What should the format of the test…

Teaching the Chain Rule with Lindt Chocolate

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

The Chain Rule is one of the most important tools students will need to evaluate derivatives. The Chain Rule is the basis for implicit…

A New Approach to Teaching Integrals

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

Learn how to best sequence the ideas of Unit 6 to develop deep conceptual understanding of integrals.

What Does the Research Say About EFFL?

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

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?

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

How to incorporate Liljedahl’s 14 teaching practices into your EFFL classroom.

Our First BC Lessons are HERE!

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

Check out three new EFFL lessons for AP Calc BC.

8 Strategies to Build Understanding of U-substitution

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

Use this set of prompts and warm-ups to help students gain conceptual understanding of u-substitution.

Using Questions to Move Student Thinking Forward

By Sarah Stecher | February 15, 2025

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…