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Steve Hare

1 year

Too many kids fall behind during math lessons because they don't know their math facts. Don't let this happen to your child this year. Send them to FactFreaks, the website I created to get my students up to speed with all 400 basic facts. It only takes a minute to play, they can

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Steve Hare

6 months

Years ago, I had the unfortunate task of trying to teach a math class that simply could not stop talking. It didn’t matter if I was facing the dry erase board or the students themselves; if I said something, they said something, if I said something else, they said something else.

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A couple of years ago, I was assigned to teach an 8th grade “math lab” class. The goal was to fill in any gaps the students might have had in their background knowledge prior to high school, so I had them work their way through a series of self-instructional, self-checking math

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Steve Hare

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Years ago, I was teaching a group of first graders how to solve addition problems by taking jumps on number lines I had printed out and laminated for them. After a series of problems like 4 + 3 and 3 + 4, and 1 + 8 and 8 + 1, one of the kids said “Does that always happen?” “Does

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4 months

One morning a number of years ago, I forgot to erase a completed problem on the whiteboard from the previous math class before my next group of 7th graders came in. To my surprise, instead of barreling in loudly as usual, the new class glanced at the left-over problem and quietly

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Steve Hare

10 months

A new student, unaccustomed to being required to work in math class, started hemming and hawing when I asked him to get started on self-checking worked example assignments I had developed involving basic fraction skills. I told him "We're doing this for your future self, so I'm

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5 months

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Students who haven’t mastered multi-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are in no position to master higher math. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺: Middle and upper level teachers are in no position to go back and teach multi-digit addition,

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Steve Hare

9 months

Years ago, a lesson I was trying to teach on simplifying algebra expressions blew up in my face in front of a group of thoroughly confused, and somewhat angry, 7th graders. In the aftermath after the bell had rung, I sat on a desk at the front of the room, looking at the problems

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Steve Hare

6 months

Are you spending every class period trying to get a bunch of chatterboxes to focus? Or are you looking for ways to make your teaching more dramatic and increase substantive engagement with the material? Give silent teaching a try! I’ll stop talking now. 8/8

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6 months

Silent teaching focuses attention like a laser beam. Students know precisely what they’re supposed to be focusing on, and have no distracting chatter preventing them from focusing on it. 2/8

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Steve Hare

9 months

So I have a student this marking period who has been repeatedly referred for math evaluations over the past three years. (Not sure what that was supposed to accomplish, seeing as our district has no math intervention program to speak of for kids his age.) What little I knew about

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Steve Hare

6 months

Silent teaching is dramatic. Trying to figure out how a problem is being solved is an entertaining puzzle, and correctly predicting the steps and solution is wonderfully satisfying. 3/8

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Steve Hare

10 months

Idea for a movie: A math textbook publishing executive magically becomes a kid again, and is subjected to the materials his own company produces - day after day after day - until he figures a few things out. Is Bill Murray available?

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8 months

Three years ago, in the "grace period" at the start of the school year, I had all of my 7th grade math students review everything they should have learned in math up to that point - from basic addition to negatives and percentages - by working their way through a sequence of

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Steve Hare

8 months

About a month ago, in the middle of an 8th grade math lesson involving scaling and ratios, a student of mine spontaneously declared “I'm bad at fractions.” A chorus of “Me too!” followed, so, figuring there was no point in continuing forward, I decided to have the class spend

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Steve Hare

5 months

I was a basic skills math teacher a number of years ago, and it was the most heart-wrenching job I’ve ever had. My students needed sensibly sequenced materials that built missing concepts and skills step by step from the ground up. They didn’t need humiliating “extra practice”

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Steve Hare

6 months

Silent teaching promotes higher-level thinking right out of the gate. Predicting, hypothesizing, analyzing - these kinds of skills develop automatically with silent teaching. 4/8

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Steve Hare

6 months

Silent teaching removes cognitive obstacles. Focusing on problems 𝘢𝘯𝘥 listening to explanations 𝘢𝘯𝘥 paying attention to other students (peer pressure being both unavoidable and irresistible) can lead very quickly to cognitive overload. 5/8

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Steve Hare

6 months

Silent teaching removes impunity. When a teacher teaches silently, there's no chatter in the room for would-be talkers to blend in with; speaking out of turn can no longer be done “anonymously.” 6/8

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Steve Hare

6 months

Silent teaching improves student talk. The vastly improved focus that accompanies silent teaching means that when it 𝘪𝘴 time for students to talk - as in the debriefing after a problem is completed - they have substantive things to talk 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵. 7/8

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Steve Hare

5 months

As if students can't build fact fluency along with conceptual understanding. And take it from this 30 year teaching veteran (and the creator of FactFreaks dot com): when students can't recall math facts instantly and accurately, the process of learning math slows to a crawl and

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Steve Hare

8 months

NEW from FactFreaks! We've showed you which math facts people get wrong most often - 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦! Our new interactive feature allows you to choose a fact and scroll down for more information (and keep on

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Steve Hare

9 months

A number of years ago, a 7th grade math student of mine was clearly bothered by his inability to keep up with the other students on a series of self-checking practice activities I had designed. Pulling him aside, I told him I was only requiring him to do his best, and that I

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Steve Hare

10 months

For the umpteenth time, memorization of basic facts and deep conceptual understanding of them 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦. Furthermore, children must have conceptual understanding of them 𝘢𝘯𝘥 be able to recall them from memory instantly if they are to

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Steve Hare

9 months

I’m teaching an 8th grade STEM course each marking period this year, and in a unit on 3D scaling, it became all-too-obvious that most of the students couldn’t handle the fractions involved. Figuring fractions are kinda important when it comes to scaling, I decided to curtail the

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3 months

During my lunch prep these past few weeks, I've been working through an algebra textbook with two Spanish-speaking math students who don't speak English and have no one else to help them. (The only official assistance they have is a Spanish teacher who’s not good with math.) You

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Steve Hare

1 year

Little known fact for elementary #math teachers: there are actually three types of subtraction, and if students don’t have experience with all three, they're unprepared for subtraction word problems:

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Steve Hare

9 months

Yesterday an 8th grade STEM student of mine uttered some magic words: "We're learning about statistics in math, and I already know all of it from your class in 6th grade." The kicker? I never taught him statistics in 6th grade. Two years ago I conducted a three-month

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Steve Hare

10 months

A student of mine who is a persistent disruption in other classes and frequently finds himself in the in-school suspension room was acting true to form in my class one day as the other students were attempting to complete some self-checking worked example activities I had

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Steve Hare

8 months

The situation: Students who haven't mastered multi-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are in no position to master higher math. The problem: Upper level teachers are in no position to go back and teach multi-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and

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Steve Hare

9 months

A while back, a former student of mine started picking on another kid on the first day of a new class I was teaching. Pulling him aside, I said, "I don't know if you know this or not, but the other kids look up to you. You shouldn't be picking on other kids - you should be

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4 months

Pre-worked examples focus attention instantly. Before students even have a chance to wonder what they’re supposed to be doing, a pre-worked example says “We’re doing 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.” 2/13

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6 months

Worked examples can revolutionize math instruction, turning math from something most students never learn to something they never forget. Read my time-tested tips on deploying this devastatingly powerful strategy yourself! …

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FactFreaks creator Steve Hare’s book series You Teach You deploys worked examples in a new way, enabling students to access math on their own. To accompany these books he has listed some worked...

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Steve Hare

9 months

Moral of the story? When deciding where to begin with new material, go with what they know. (Believe me, if there’s one thing 7th graders tend to know, it’s mirrors.) 6/6

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Steve Hare

7 months

In the fall, I had a student who took to the self-explanatory, self-instructional, self-checking math materials I had developed for my classes to the point where she worked on them on her free time at home. One day she told me her father said to say that he loved the activities.

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10 months

When kids hesitate with basic math facts, do they also tend to get the answers wrong? Data from FactFreaks (the free website that tracks speed and accuracy with all 400 basic facts) says yes. Let the theories begin!

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Steve Hare

9 months

Years ago on the first day of school, I asked each of my new 7th grade math students to draw a number line on lined paper from memory, starting at 10 and counting down by ones until they ran out of room. 1/x

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Steve Hare

5 months

At the beginning of each year as a 6th grade math teacher years ago, I, like so many other upper level #math teachers, was forced to deal with what you could call “the Swiss cheese problem”: multiple classes with multiple students with multiple holes in their math knowledge. To

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Steve Hare

4 months

Pre-worked examples are participatory. Not everyone can solve a problem straight away, but everyone can examine an example. 4/13

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2 years

Unstructured "discovery learning" is like a therapist who keeps answering a client with "What do you think?" Teachers have to steer students toward knowledge and understanding they won't find on their own. That's the job. @AltB56073878 @BarryGarelick @RCsEvilTwin @mikesully97

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Steve Hare

9 months

A student I had two years ago struggled quite a bit with the math involved in the self-checking worked-example activities I had designed and assigned to his class, frequently completing fewer of them than his classmates. Whenever this happened, he would always say, "I'll do some

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Steve Hare

4 months

This cliff will be completely avoidable in the future. I've spent years locating all the specific sticking points, special cases, and misconceptions that keep students from understanding fractions - and then more years developing self-instructional, self-checking activities that

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4 months

Fractions are the spot where everyone falls off the math cliff

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Steve Hare

11 months

Unstructured "discovery learning" is like a therapist who keeps answering a patient with "What do you think?" As #teachers , we must point our students directly toward knowledge, understanding, and skills they won't arrive at on their own. That's the job.

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Steve Hare

10 months

Answer keys in math should always contain fully worked-out solutions. That way students can easily track down and learn from errors in their thinking, as well as their plain old mistakes.

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Steve Hare

10 months

The slower kids tend to be when completing basic math facts, the “wronger” they also tend to be. Based on the data below, if a kid can’t complete math facts quickly, it’s safe to assume they don’t "just know them slow" - and that they need to roll up their sleeves and start

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Steve Hare

9 months

A student I had last marking period kept asking me to load more of the self-instructional, worked example activities I had created onto Google Classroom so she could complete them at home on her own. The activities she requested involved mathematical content not covered in the

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7 months

At the beginning of this current marking period, a new 7th grader of mine tried every form of silliness imaginable to get out of starting the first of many self-explanatory, worked example geometry activities I had assigned to her class. When I started going over the first of the

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Steve Hare

1 year

#Teachers : Kids aren't naturally hostile to hard work, but they understably hate work that's confusing, unclear, unaligned to their background knowledge and/or skills, or just plain pointless. Hard work, yes. Hopeless work, no.

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Steve Hare

10 months

Schoolwork without feedback is busy work, nothing more.

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Steve Hare

9 months

Last week I wanted to see what my 8th grade STEM students understood about negatives, so I wrote the following problems on the board, and asked them not to solve them, but to tell me if the answers were positive or negative: (-6) x (-2) (-6) / (-2) (-6) + (-2) Gleefully they

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Steve Hare

10 months

Student: Can we have a free period today? Me: Do you want one? Class: Yeah!! Me: Then no. (pause) Student: Then we 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 want a free period! Me: Okay, then sit down and let's get to work. Follow me for more useful teacher tips and tidbits.

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Steve Hare

9 months

A math student I had two years ago took to the self-paced, self-checking math activities I had created like a duck to water. Each day he would work through them diligently during class, filling notebooks with amazingly organized and detailed work. Later each day, during study

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Steve Hare

9 months

And yes, for those teachers who know this nightmare scenario all too well, that was my Halloween tweet. Happy trick or tweet everybody! 👻

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Steve Hare

7 months

New Year’s resolution for math teachers: instant recall of basic math facts for 100% of your students. Best thing about this resolution? The kids can cross it off your list for you at FactFreaks dot com, the website I created to get my own students up to speed with all 400 basic

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Steve Hare

4 months

Pre-worked examples are dramatic. They add a satisfying level of mystery to math instruction: “Can you figure out what’s going on here?” 3/13

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9 months

Last year, in the middle of a series of self-paced, self-checking worked example activities on binary code I had created for my computer science students, a student turned around to tell me that “These activities are just the right amount of hard.” Kids don't need for learning to

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Steve Hare

5 months

At a 7th grade Back-to-School Night many years ago, I was asked by a parent to show how I had introduced equivalent fractions to my students earlier that day; her daughter had come home buzzing about what she had learned and she wanted the other parents to see it. I wrote the

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Steve Hare

5 months

With every single problem students are asked to do. Problems without feedback are busy work, nothing more.

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Bill Davidson

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5 months

@teachbk I believe that immediate corrective feedback is crucial in learning anything. Otherwise, we internalize misconceptions.

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Steve Hare

8 months

A new student a few weeks back instantly defaulted to “I need help” every time it was time to start one of the self-instructional, self-checking STEM activities I had developed for his class, apparently having gotten into the habit of getting teachers to do his work for him. He

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Steve Hare

4 months

First question to ask about a would-be educational solution: 𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦? To have a chance of making a difference, it must be simpler than the problem it's meant to solve. To have a 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 chance of making a difference, it must be significantly simpler than what's

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Steve Hare

10 months

Why do #math textbooks contain so few worked-out examples? It's almost as if they weren't designed with the kids in mind at all.

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Steve Hare

8 months

Tip for teachers who use worked examples in a whole-group setting: Distribute hard copies of the fully-worked examples beforehand. That way the students can pay full attention to you as you "work" and explain each example without having to worry about copying it down correctly

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Steve Hare

7 months

It's official! Over a million games have been played at FactFreaks dot com! Kids everywhere are getting up to speed with their basic math facts and having tons of fun doing so! See what all the buzz is about for yourself - check out FactFreaks today! As always, completely and

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Steve Hare

8 months

At this time of the year, when we focus on the children of the world, I'd like to offer a heartfelt thanks to those of you who have helped us spread FactFreaks dot com this past year. Children everywhere deserve the chance to master mathematics, and thanks to you, so many of them

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Steve Hare

9 months

Nobody needs to be this fast with basic math facts, but… Years ago, before FactFreaks was a free website and was simply a program I had written to get my students up to speed with their math facts, a student of mine and his twin brother were racing each other with it in the

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Steve Hare

5 months

It’s bad enough that so many kids need tutoring in basic math; the fact that so many can’t get it because of the cost is nothing short of tragic. This ends now. My first book - 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘠𝘰𝘶, 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘖𝘯𝘦: 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 - is now

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Steve Hare

10 months

Students often come from backgrounds where education isn't valued. As teachers, we can't change that. What we 𝘤𝘢𝘯 do is get students to buy into their 𝘰𝘸𝘯 education by providing them with learning activities that make perfect sense, that they can actually do, and that

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Steve Hare

8 months

𝗧𝗵𝗲 #𝟭 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲-𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲: student attention wanders. Even those students who are trying the hardest to pay attention during direct instruction are frequently distracted by objects in the environment, their own thoughts and

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Steve Hare

9 months

Typical experience in my 5th grade classroom when I was a younger teacher: Me: What's 8 plus 4? Kid: 12. Me: So what's 12 minus 4? Kid (as if it's a stupid question): I don't know! Kids don't naturally think to work backwards from addition and multiplication facts to

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Steve Hare

8 months

Yesterday I got a birthday card from a former student that was signed by all of my current 7th graders. Among other very kind things she wrote, “You are always able to keep your class under control (trust me that is AMAZING).” Behavior in our building has become noticeably worse

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Steve Hare

1 year

Kids who don't know their basic math facts are headed toward math anxiety. Ease their minds - and yours - by steering them instead to FactFreaks, the website I created to get my students up to speed with all 400 basic facts. It only takes a minute to play, they can use it to

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Steve Hare

8 months

100%. The top five publishing companies are credibly accused of operating as a cartel. The interest of students is the furthest thing from their minds. Here's an article I wrote on the subject from my perspective as a classroom teacher for anyone who's interested.

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Diane Hare ✌️+ ☕ = 💯

8 months

Textbook companies rule education in much the same way pharmaceutical companies control our health. For profit and with a laundry list of negative side effects.

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Steve Hare

7 months

@casa_roberts_tx Couldn't agree more. I'm about to release my first book, which is designed to do precisely this. See .

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Basic Math is Now Within Everyone's Grasp

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Steve Hare

4 months

These takeaways from @rpondiscio at ResearchEd Greenwich are spot on. We need to get user-friendly and effective materials into the hands of the teachers we have ASAP. If we don't, we won't have many of them for long.

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Karen Vaites

4 months

@researchED_US @rpondiscio @TNTP @mcglynn3 . @rpondiscio ’s Takeaways. Keep an eye out for a new paper coming out this week on these themes, which Robert discussed in his talk.

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1 year

#Mathteachers : Spending too much time trying to tap into student interests is ill advised; kids and their individual interests vary too widely. Better to spark their interest in mathematics and all of the amazing things it enables humans to dream of and do.

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Steve Hare

10 months

Here's some news the world has been waiting for. Which math facts do people get wrong most often? The answer, courtesy of FactFreaks the only math fact website that insists on 100% accuracy:

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Steve Hare

7 months

You're very welcome, Amna! If anyone's interested in updates on the availability of this book - and future books in this series - check out .

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Basic Math is Now Within Everyone's Grasp

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Steve Hare

9 months

A Thanksgiving shout out to all who have been using and promoting FactFreaks this school year. Because of you, FactFreaks is spreading like crazy, and more importantly, kids everywhere are mastering their math facts in a free and fun way. Thank you all so much!

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When students can't recall math facts from memory, every single problem they're asked to do is more complicated than it should be. Send your child to FactFreaks, the website I created to get my students to the point of instant recall with all 400 basic math facts. It's now

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Steve Hare

1 year

#Mathteachers : It bears repeating: if students have truly been taught to problem-solve, then they should be able to solve the problems that appear on standardized tests, and the scores should bear this out. Anyone who tries to obscure this fact ...is trying to obscure this fact.

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Steve Hare

1 year

#Mathteachers in the younger grades: If you give homework, be sure it includes an adequate number of pre-worked examples. Otherwise how will parents know what's going on?

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Steve Hare

5 months

Big news! We just hit 𝟮 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 at ! Kids 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 are having a blast racing against the clock with math facts! Get your kid in on all the free fact fun today! FactFreaks for fluency! FactFreaks for fun!

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Math fact speed, guaranteed! The fastest possible way to learn all 400 addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. No assistance required! Makes flash cards obsolete! Online math fact...

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Steve Hare

9 months

To wrap up an 8th grade STEM course this past week, I created a detailed drawing of an apartment complex on “3D graph paper” (think Minecraft) and had the students apply what they had learned this marking period by having them determine a number of the distances, perimeters,

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Steve Hare

4 months

Pre-worked examples can be used for review - super-efficient review where no time is wasted getting students up to speed with the background they need for new instruction. 5/13

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Steve Hare

9 months

Which addition facts do people get wrong most often? Here's the answer, courtesy of FactFreaks, the free and fun website I created to get my students up to speed with all 400 basic facts, and that's now instantly available to everyone everywhere!

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Steve Hare

10 months

We just hit 2 million facts shown at FactFreaks dot com, the free & fun website I created to get the children of the world up to speed with their basic math facts! That's another million in a little over two weeks! Thanks so much to all of you who've been using FactFreaks with

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Steve Hare

4 months

20 years ago I started collecting anonymous answers to math problems with a drop box in an effort to see what was really going on in my students’ minds moment-by-moment during math class. Little did I know this little cardboard box would change my life. Here's the story!

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Steve Hare

9 months

Update on a story I tweeted last weekend about a middle school student who was hemming and hawing about getting to work until I mentioned that we were doing this for the benefit of his future self, and thus I wasn’t overly concerned about his feelings in the here and now.

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Steve Hare

10 months

We just hit 4 million facts shown overnight at FactFreaks dot com! That's a rate of almost a million facts a week - and a whopping $0.00 in profit! (FactFreaks is completely free and always will be, and there are no ads.) Join us in our quest to get kids everywhere up to speed

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Steve Hare

4 months

Pre-worked examples can promote higher-level thinking. Questions like “What’s different about this approach?,” “How is this similar to previous problems?,” “What’s being combined here?” and “Is this the best possible strategy?” emerge naturally from structured use of pre-worked

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Steve Hare

10 months

We just hit 3 million facts shown at FactFreaks dot com, the free & fun website I created to get the children of the world up to speed with their basic math facts! That's another million in under two weeks! Thanks so much to all of you who've been using FactFreaks with your kids

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Steve Hare

1 year

#Math teachers - Harbor no illusions; students who aren't completely proficient with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, fractions and negatives can't achieve proficiency with math. "Going further anyway" is an exercise in futility - for both you and them.

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Steve Hare

1 year

#Math #teachers : Asking students to keep up in math when they haven't mastered their math facts is like asking them to spell when they haven't mastered the alphabet. Send them to FactFreaks, the website I created to get my own students up to speed with all 400 basic facts. It

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Steve Hare

7 months

@PalmTreeReading It's 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 a powerful strategy when executed correctly.

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Steve Hare

10 months

@rastokke The irony here is that rote memorization of math facts can lead to deeper understanding of math. Why is anyone against this?

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Steve Hare

9 months

We hit 10 million math facts shown yesterday at FactFreaks dot com! That's the equivalent of 10 million flash cards! What's the reason for this outstanding success? It's simple: 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴. Kids everywhere can now recall their math facts instantly, and

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Steve Hare

1 year

I don't care if my students like me (they do). I don’t care if they have fun in my class (they sporadically do). I only care that when they’re finished with me, they understand and can do #math . Do surgeons care if their patients like them or had fun in the O.R.?

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Steve Hare

1 year

#Mathteachers : "I'm good at math now" > "I loved your class" "I'm good at math now" > "This year was fun" "I'm good at math now" > "You're a good teacher" "I'm good at math now" > just about anything

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Steve Hare

1 year

#Mathteachers : Best explanation of the "invisible coefficient" (x = 1x) that I've ever heard, courtesy of a 7th grader I had years ago: "It's like the first Toy Story movie! You don't call it 'Toy Story 1.' You just call it 'Toy Story' because it isn't 2 or 3."

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Steve Hare

1 year

#Math #teachers : In my experience, students only hate showing their work when they can't actually do the work, or don't know how to do it in an easily-understood, organized fashion. Once they've learned how to solve problems in an orderly way, they're more than happy to

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