Hey #mtbos and #iteachmath I'm looking to buy some classroom sets of personal/laptop whiteboards with grids on one side and blank on the other. Anyone found such a thing that works and is affordable? Brands, links, or alternative suggestions welcome.

PROOF POINTS: Columnist Jill Barshay breaks down what the research evidence says about gifted education hechingerreport.org/proof-points-w…

Recent NAEP results show troubling declines in achievement even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Hear details from NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr in this video about the 2020 NAEP Long-Term Trend results: youtube.com/watch?v=jfUwhw… #edchat #edquity

Interested in the nation's reading and mathematics scores? Explore the 2020 NAEP Long-Term Trend (LTT) assessment data with our new video release. #EdPolicy #EdResearch #EdData youtube.com/watch?v=jfUwhw…

Function notation and evaluating functions is throwing my Math 1 kids for a loop. Sequence notation (A sub n) did too. Really… anything other than x and y. Suggestions to help support/review/reteach this? #MTBoS

The order of operations doesn't matter. x.com/potetoichiro/s… #math #mathchat #mtbos

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Students have experienced slower growth rates and lower achievement levels in math/reading during the pandemic. Negative impacts were larger among students of color and students experiencing poverty. brook.gs/3DL5eXV

Commissioner Peggy Carr notes that the 2020 long-term trend results are the latest to show declining scores for students who are struggling in math and reading. See the math results: nationsreportcard.gov/ltt/mathematic… #edequity #edchat

A great 1to9puzzle for beginning puzzlists, like elementary school #math students. x.com/1to9puzzle/sta… #edchat #mathchat #mtbos

Many are understandably disillusioned with the idea that everyone should get a college degree. One alternative is a shorter vocational certification. Lawmakers in DC are debating whether to increase federal funding for them. A thread on short-term certificate programs.

The general slope/𝑦-intercept eqn of a line would be better expressed as 𝑦=𝑏𝑥+𝑐. It's consistent with the general eqn of a parabola 𝑦=𝑎𝑥²+𝑏𝑥+𝑐, and the 𝑐 is consistent with the constant used in integral calculus. How many books use 𝑦=𝑚𝑥+𝑏? #mathchat #mtbos

“They are graduating underserved students at much higher rates.” bit.ly/3M1sJA8

ACT study finds that the trend of rising GPAs accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic bit.ly/3Mnkkay

“The really big effects were concentrated in the dismantling of de jure segregation in the South. You just really see very little impact in the North, but very, very strong effects in the South.” bit.ly/3wuiUpc

1 out of 5 U.S. adults under 65 dropped out of college and don't have a degree. A survey of those who succeeded in returning finds a wide range of things that helped them come back. (3/3) hechingerreport.org/proof-points-l…

In 2017, 69M adults had low (English language) numeracy skills, significantly greater than the number of adults with low skills in 2012/2014. Discover trend data from #PIAAC in our #DataPoint: nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubs…

The definition of who is gifted appeared to change as you walked across the hallway. Appalachian experiment by Karen Rambo-Hernandez, Ph.D and research team has implications for NYC Public Schools mew plan for finding Gifted and Talented children hechingerreport.org/proof-points-h…