Nicora Placa

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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Equality: How elementary school teachers can help algebra teachers

I’m certainly not the first person to talk about the importance of the equal sign.  Researchers have been talking about it since the 80’s and discussions about the equal sign have made the rounds on the blogs and twitter (most recently Justin Aion posted about strings of equal signs here) Often, the concept of equality …

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