Half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Believe it or not, some (okay, a lot) of Middle School students claim that they don't like Math. At the beginning of the year I always see blank faces as I teach the first few lessons. I know what they are thinking, and my challenge every year is to teach them why Math should be important to them. I try to come up with engaging activities and projects to get them through the curriculum. Sometimes, that is just not enough.
Middle Schoolers CRAVE technology. They BEG to play review games off of Kahoot. They WANT to be able to watch the video tutorials that our textbook website provides when they come back from an absence. They ASK to do projects in a group using Google Slides and Google Sheets to present the data that they collected when we study bivariate data. They LOVE listening to Math songs that others have created off of YouTube to help them get the concepts stuck in their brain. They REQUEST to play online Math review games if they finish their work early.
I want to be able to give them these opportunities, and I want to be able to make Math fun. I have hopes and dreams of teaching them mathematical career skills such as how to work on spreadsheets or how to collect and present data. Using Chromebooks, students will acquire these STEM skills and much, much more!
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Believe it or not, some (okay, a lot) of Middle School students claim that they don't like Math. At the beginning of the year I always see blank faces as I teach the first few lessons. I know what they are thinking, and my challenge every year is to teach them why Math should be important to them. I try to come up with engaging activities and projects to get them through the curriculum. Sometimes, that is just not enough.
Middle Schoolers CRAVE technology. They BEG to play review games off of Kahoot. They WANT to be able to watch the video tutorials that our textbook website provides when they come back from an absence. They ASK to do projects in a group using Google Slides and Google Sheets to present the data that they collected when we study bivariate data. They LOVE listening to Math songs that others have created off of YouTube to help them get the concepts stuck in their brain. They REQUEST to play online Math review games if they finish their work early.
I want to be able to give them these opportunities, and I want to be able to make Math fun. I have hopes and dreams of teaching them mathematical career skills such as how to work on spreadsheets or how to collect and present data. Using Chromebooks, students will acquire these STEM skills and much, much more!