Math writing ideas and prompts for 4th graders. 1. Write about how you use math each day in the real world. ... Tell me about one activity you have enjoyed while learning about math.

Writing summaries, research reports, arguments, self-reflective journal entries and even narrative stories all seemed to work most of the time. The researchers wondered if some teachers aren’t ...

What Pondiscio describes on the writing front has also been happening with mathematics education in K-6 for the past two decades. I first became aware of it over 10 years ago when I saw what ...

Dr. Linda Dacey, Sandy Atkins, Andrea Clark, Mike Flynn, ReLeah Cossett Lent and Shannon Jones share their ideas on how to incorporate writing into math instruction.

Math 79SI: “Proof Positive: Principles of Mathematics” is a new student-initiated class that introduces students to basic mathematical proof-writing techniques.

Educators taught an array of math skills, from ordering and sorting objects into groups, writing numbers up to 100, naming shapes, copying patterns, and single-digit addition and subtraction ...

Disdain for "Common Core" math instruction and the requirement that students explain their answers crosses all manner of partisan boundaries. Unfortunately, it's dead wrong: explaining answers is ...

Summer reading has taken a new twist at St. Paul’s School for Girls in Baltimore County. This summer, ninth-graders are reading Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park,” not becau… ...

At the state level, more than 70% of school divisions have shown improvement in reading in grades 3 to 8, and more than 75% made gains in grades 3 to 8 in math. Pass rates are still lower, in some ...