RESOURCES
Pedagogy
These resources from Math Medic are designed to save you time while sparking your students’ curiosity.
Decision Making in the Classroom
Perspectives on what can, does, and should shape our classroom choices.
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…
4 Lessons We Learned While Substitute Teaching
Lindsey and Sarah reflect on their experience substitute teaching.
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…
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
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…
Homework Is Broken. Here’s How We Can Fix It.
Karen Sleno explains how she’s totally changed her approach to homework this year.
Building Thinking Classrooms and EFFL: Can You Do Both?
How to incorporate Liljedahl’s 14 teaching practices into your EFFL classroom.
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.
5 Probability Strategies to Try Before Using a Formula
Probability is tough for students. Help them by providing these 5 strategies they can try before using a formula.