RESOURCES
Pedagogy
These resources from Math Medic are designed to save you time while sparking your students’ curiosity.
When Am I Ever Going To Use This? – Part 2
When students ask “When Am I Ever Going To Use This?”, instead of focusing only on the content, look at everyday skills the lesson teaches.
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…
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).
Decision Making in the Classroom
Perspectives on what can, does, and should shape our classroom choices.
Reviewing without Reteaching-Part 2
Why re-teaching may not be the best option for end-of-semester review, and actually may have some problematic effects.
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.
A Simple Practice to Revolutionize Your Teaching
They say you can’t know what you don’t know. There are things we learn in certain seasons that wouldn’t have landed at an earlier time. I…
Do All the Problems
AP Calc veteran Virge Cornelius is teaching AP Stats for the first time. How did she prepare? By doing all the problems!