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Friday, March 26, 2010

Math Intervention Blog � Fun Math Blog

Math Intervention Blog � Fun Math Blog

Math Intervention Blog

[ Editor’s note: Jim, of the Math Intervention Blog took me up on my offer to promote sites I feel good about. Here is Jim’s intro to his blog. ]

Thanks Sol for helping all of us spread the word about our contributions to math teaching and learning! Our blog,Math Intervention Blog, is a forum for thinking together about teaching and learning math, with special attention to supporting students who are struggling. And unfortunately there continues to be a lot of them.

We are tutors and developers of math intervention materials and offer teacher development programs. We are concerned with how math is too often taught. When we go into schools to do workshops, we see active teachers explaining and modeling and passive students (listening and understanding?). These lessons are filled with