Teaching to the presumed level of a whole class never works as well as hoped because students still have significant differences in work habits, paces of learning, and outside of school experiences.

Tracking-- a podcast done by a student who was put in the middle track but who wanted to be in the upper track -- her name is Jaimita Haskell, and this is her story of becoming an activist to get into ...

All of my students (9th graders) were more than two years behind in math when I began teaching in the Chicago Public Schools in 1993. (This was based on students’ 8th grade test results and confirmed ...

A new approach to grouping theory uses math to determine how to organize individuals to maximize learning. Imagine you have a group of 30 children who want to play soccer. You would like to divide ...

Is it my imagination, or have you noticed that some public high school courses that are now called "honors" are equivalent to the regular "college prep" curriculum of earlier eras? And have you also ...

Schools should use both ability grouping and acceleration to help academically talented students, reports a new study that examined a century of research looking at the controversial subject. Schools ...

JPG, 99.46 KB pdf, 1.17 MB pptx, 1.19 MB zip, 3.21 MB This product relates to division focussing on grouping. The lesson conveniently follows on from sharing equally. The lesson models grouping in a ...