Struggling students

How to gather the data you really want about student misconceptions

Let’s say you have a binder full of the data I talked about last time.  You know which students got which questions wrong on your latest assessment. How do you use this information to help those struggling students? You can’t.  Knowing they answered a question incorrectly is useful, but you need to know why. That’s …

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The worst thing you can say to a student struggling in math

“It’s easy.  Let me help you.” Ok.  Maybe that’s not the worst thing you can say to a student, but it’s up there. Yet, well-intentioned teachers and parents say it all the time. Why? For starters, the problem is easy to us. We don’t understand why a student is struggling with something that seems so …

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