Teacher Workload and Adaptive Learning How adaptive learning can help maximise the impact of feedback and reduce teacher workload The aim of this post is to provide a summary of some of the current research into marking and feedback to enable you to have informed discussions at your school and hopefully reach a sustainable workload
Math is Cool A few neat mathematical properties for your enjoyment Jonathan’s math class — circa 2000: “Take out your calculators. Now, somebody give me a number to divide by 7. I bet I can calculate the answer to the same number of decimal places as your calculator before you can even type
The Mathspace Teacher Challenge A fresh take on traditional mathematics competitions In 2018 we launched our first-ever nationwide Mathspace Teacher Challenge in Australia. More than 80,000 students and 1,400 teachers from across the country took part in the Challenge which ran for four weeks, from 20 August to 17 September 2018.
Our Esteemed Educators of 2018 We celebrate the top Mathspace educators of the United States In 2018 we named two hundred and fifty math teachers across the United States as the Mathspace Esteemed Educators, recognized for their vision and innovative approach to math education, their successful implementation of technology in the classroom, and helping their
Mathematics If half the world was illiterate, would that be ok? It’s not socially acceptable to be illiterate. It shouldn’t be socially acceptable to be bad at math either. It’s hard to believe that just over 50 years ago less than half the adult world was able to read (Our World in Data [https://ourworldindata.org/literacy/]). For
Why Does Math Anxiety Continue to Plague Americans? Like so many math educators across the country, my goal has always been to help students learn to love mathematics. If they can’t love math, I hope to instill in them an anxiety-free appreciation for the subject. However, mathematics has the unlucky designation of the most-feared school
Education Why is Australia behind in Mathematics, and who is to blame? “I’m illiterate, haha…. I just hated English at school!” I can’t say that I’ve ever heard anyone say that. Sure, some people will say that they didn’t enjoy English at school, but very few people will openly proclaim that they are illiterate. What about this one…
