RESOURCES
Sarah Stecher
These resources from Math Medic are designed to save you time while sparking your students’ curiosity.
Establishing Norms in the Math Classroom
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
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
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
Learn how to best sequence the ideas of Unit 6 to develop deep conceptual understanding of integrals.
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…