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All problems are now on my new site:  https://cognitivecardiomath.com/free-resource-center/ Happy Monday! It's a rainy Monday here this morning....and a bit darker than usual with the time change, so I really wanted to stay in bed today! We are working with ratios and proportions in 6th grade math this week, SO this week's problem of the week is a pizza-themed ratio problem solving activity. I hope you can use it! You can click below to access:-) Have a great day! Click to access To access all of the Problem of the Weeks, click here !

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Chapter 5: Stuck in the Slow Lane: How American Grouping Systems Perpetuate Low Achievement Wow, what a chapter. This one has made me rethink some of my beliefs. Most of my 24 years of teaching math has included grouping by ability. It was such a big push in my early years of teaching – our smaller elementary school didn’t group, but one of the bigger elementary schools did, and the parents pushed for (and got) “equity” among the schools. So we all started grouping. Ability-grouping has become ingrained, so reading (in this chapter) that ability grouping is illegal in some countries in the world, including Finland (at the top in international achievement tests), really surprised me. Grouping is banned because when students are put in lower ability classes, they receive lower-level work, which Boaler says is damaging and suppresses achievement. Non-ability grouping provides more students with the opportunity to learn – which is needed in order to achieve. Makes sense. Boaler state...

All problems are now on my new site:  https://cognitivecardiomath.com/free-resource-center/ In honor of Winter Storm Jonas, this week's problem solving uses some snowfall data. This is a quick one - students use the data to find mean, median and mode. It's nice that the numbers are decimals - provides some decimal adding and dividing practice! Click to access To access all of the Problem of the Weeks, click here !