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  • Learning Itself Has Changed

    Learning Itself Has Changed

    I teach a math methods class for special education teacher candidates at UCONN. During a lesson on an instructional strategy on making math meaningful, I experienced an epiphany of sorts. The students were partaking in a discovery lesson in which they rotated through using four different types of manipulatives (photo below, left). They would follow…

  • In lieu of a school having to make technology available for vast numbers of kids it is possible to use personal technology. The apps identified here can be useful in a math course. Polls would allow personally relevant data collection and could lead to modeling opportunities (not on the runway, models like linear functions). Plinky…