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Pedagogy
These resources from Math Medic are designed to save you time while sparking your students’ curiosity.
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.
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…
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.
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!
Setting the Stage for a Successful New School Year
A collection of our favorite tasks, resources, and activities to start the school year off right!
Using Questions to Help Students Construct Understanding
How will my students do the EFFL activity if I haven’t taught them yet? The key is in the questions you ask and how you ask them.
What Does an EFFL Lesson Look Like?
Watch video footage of Sarah teaching an Experience First, Formalize Later lesson.
What Does It Mean to “Model with Mathematics”?
Unpacking MP4: what it is, how to teach it, and why it matters.