4 Ways Math Teachers can Differentiate Instruction
There are different ways to differentiate instruction. Which is the best one for math teachers? Which will have the best impact on your students?
Articles by Chris Skierski
Help Your Math Students Learn from their Mistakes
Thomas Edison famously said, “I didn’t fail 10,000 times, I found 10,000 ways that didn’t work.” As educators, we love quotes like these that encourage our students to press forward […]
Why I Ditched Alternative Assessments in my Math Class
Some students aren’t good test takers. They get test anxiety, they work slower than their peers, or a host of other issues that cause issues with tests as a viable […]
An Effective and Affordable Way to Celebrate Student Success
Celebrating student success is a powerful yet under utilized tool in an educator’s tool belt. Think of how fun it is to be celebrated. It’s a good feeling. It makes […]
5 Things Teachers Should do with Their Stimulus Money
This post contains affiliate links to products that do not affect your price but help support this website. Teachers are about to receive their third round of stimulus checks from […]
Encourage Your Students to Take Risks, Experiment, and Make Mistakes
There are lots of benefits when students try new ways to solve a problem. Unfortunately, the way we currently structure our instructional design promotes memorization and discourages experimentation and risks. […]
7 Ways to Inspire Students to Love Math
7 strategies to get your students to love math
How to Stop Students from Using the PhotoMath App
Math teachers are getting more and more frustrated with PhotoMath and other apps that literally do the students’ homework for them. Just download the app, point your phone’s camera at […]
How to reteach multiple prerequisite skills at the same time
How can you reach every student in the room when they all need help developing different skills? The problem with teaching math Many math concepts build upon each other. The […]
Helping Students Master Operations with Decimals
My Students Can’t do the Skill We’re Working on because Some of the Problems Have Numbers wth Decimals in them! There is nothing quite as frustrating for a teacher as […]