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Beigie, Darin – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2018
The author, a mathematics teacher, describes a seventh grade class where students use scientific notation to calculate how long it takes light to travel a variety of astronomical distances and then interpret the significance of their findings. Ultimately, the goal is to have students see how calculations can help answer large, almost philosophical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 7, Computation, Scientific Concepts
Murawska, Jaclyn M. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2018
How can a cognitively demanding real-world task such as the Seven Billion People problem promote productive struggle "and" help shape students' mathematical dispositions? Driving home from school one evening, Jaclyn Murawska heard a commentator on the radio announce three statements: (1) experts had determined that the world population…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Computation, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Cho, Hoyun – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2016
This brief "Math for Real" article introduces Ohanna, a seventh grader who lives in New York City and regularly takes the bus to get around the city. Ohanna pays $2.50 per bus ride when using her MetroCard. She earns a 5% bonus when she refills the card with a minimum of $5.00. For example, if she adds $10.00 on her MetroCard, her…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Computation, Transportation, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Dupree, Kami M. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2016
For decades, students have been encouraged to use "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" as a means of learning the order of operations. Teachers unfamiliar with the Aunt Sally mnemonic are perhaps more familiar with a mnemonic such as PEMDAS. Each mnemonic is intended to convey "parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mnemonics, Computation, Mathematics Instruction
Roy, George J.; Hodges, Thomas E.; Graul, LuAnn – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2016
Who will make a better estimate concerning the number of jelly beans in a jar, a single person or a group of people? On one side of the debate is the notion that a person would make a better decision because he or she uses unique knowledge that the group may not possess. On the opposite side of the argument is the claim that because of their…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods
de la Cruz, Jessica A.; Garney, Sandra – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2016
It is beneficial for students to discover intuitive strategies, as opposed to the teacher presenting strategies to them. Certain proportional reasoning tasks are more likely to elicit intuitive strategies than other tasks. The strategies that students are apt to use when approaching a task, as well as the likelihood of a student's success or…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
Degner, Kate – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
In the author's experience with this activity, students struggle with the idea of representativeness in probability. Therefore, this student misconception is part of the classroom discussion about the activities in this lesson. Representativeness is related to the (incorrect) idea that outcomes that seem more random are more likely to happen. This…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Activities, Probability, Educational Games
Taylor, Sharon E.; Mittag, Kathleen Cage – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
The authors teach a problem-solving course for preservice middle-grades education majors that includes concepts dealing with absolute-value computations, equations, and inequalities. Many of these students like mathematics and plan to teach it, so they are adept at symbolic manipulations. Getting them to think differently about a concept that they…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Preservice Teacher Education
Cooper, Linda; Dennis, Emily – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2016
More than 2,200 years ago, Eratosthenes, who was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician, used a simple proportion involving the distance between two ancient cities and measures of shadows cast in those cities during a summer solstice to estimate the circumference of Earth (Nicastro 2008, 25-28). Today, middle school students can use…
Descriptors: Computation, Computer Oriented Programs, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Green, Daniel; Kearney, Thomas – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
Emperor penguins, the largest of all the penguin species, attain heights of nearly four feet and weigh up to 99 pounds. Many students are not motivated to learn mathematics when textbook examples contain largely nonexistent contexts or when the math is not used to solve significant problems found in real life. This article's project explores how…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Animals, Foreign Countries, Measurement
Moore, Tamara J.; Doerr, Helen M.; Glancy, Aran W.; Ntow, Forster D. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
Getting students to think deeply about mathematical concepts is not an easy job, which is why we often use problem-solving tasks to engage students in higher-level mathematical thinking. Mathematical modeling, one of the mathematical practices found in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), is a type of problem solving that can…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Mathematical Concepts
Snapp, Robert R.; Neumann, Maureen D. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
The rapid growth of digital technology, including the worldwide adoption of mobile and embedded computers, places new demands on K-grade 12 educators and their students. Young people should have an opportunity to learn the technical knowledge of computer science (e.g., computer programming, mathematical logic, and discrete mathematics) in order to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Learning Activities, Middle School Students
O'Dell, Robin S. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2012
There are two primary interpretations of the mean: as a leveler of data (Uccellini 1996, pp. 113-114) and as a balance point of a data set. Typically, both interpretations of the mean are ignored in elementary school and middle school curricula. They are replaced with a rote emphasis on calculation using the standard algorithm. When students are…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Mathematics
Gavin, M. Katherine; Sheffield, Linda Jensen – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
For most students, algebra seems like a totally different subject than the number topics they studied in elementary school. In reality, the procedures followed in arithmetic are actually based on the properties and laws of algebra. Algebra should be a logical next step for students in extending the proficiencies they developed with number topics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Algebra
Kimani, Patrick M.; Gibbs, Renamarie T.; Anderson, Sarah M. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2013
Numerous research articles and curricula standards maintain that learning is optimized when students are actively involved in the learning process by assimilating information and constructing their own meanings. The authors' experience with teaching probability concepts has shown that students struggle with concepts of counting. These…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Participation, Mathematical Concepts