Adapting an Effective Math Collaboration Activity for Distance Learning

An instructional coach and math teacher who developed a powerful model for student collaboration have tweaked it for the pandemic.

In this excerpt from The Math Teacher’s Toolbox, the authors, veteran high school math teachers, share research on motivation.

Using the popular game in station rotation activities during distance learning is a way to bring an element of play and collaboration to writing assignments.

Teachers, kindergarteners, and parents are trying to make online learning work—and snow days and other future emergencies will likely mean they have to again. But is it really possible?

Through this approach, which focuses on students’ strengths, teachers can plan instruction that promotes a growth mindset.

In planning project-based learning units, teachers can maximize students’ time together by focusing on collaboration and feedback.

Educators across the country share their insights on how the pandemic has forced them to change staff meetings—for the better.

With careful planning, teachers can use the election to foster social and emotional learning and connect math, literacy, and social studies lessons.

These easy-to-implement strategies can make science, technology, engineering, and math lessons come alive for elementary students.