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Adventist Robotics - First Lego League and First Tech Challenge Kindergarten-Grade 12FIRST LEGO League introduces science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to children ages 4-14 through fun, exciting hands-on learning, while FIRST Tech Challenge students (grades 7-12) learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build,... -
A Mathematics Challenge for Tomorrow Kindergarten-Grade 12Students in Seventh-day Adventist schools score close to the national norm in math on standardized tests. Some suggestions for improvement are given in the article, including having student-centered and student-directed classrooms and showing students math... -
A No-Paper Day Kindergarten-Grade 12A multigrade teacher shares how to implement a no-paper day each week. This is a day where students learn but the teacher doesn't have to take home papers to grade for the day. The author shares ideas for how to teach math, reading, Bible, language, spelling,... -
Algebra 2 Powerpoints - Andrews Academy Grade 9-Grade 12Unzip this large download to access 12 powerpoints. Each powerpoint covers the content as organized in one chapter of McDougal Littell's 2001 Algebra 2 text, currently used in NAD Adventist high schools. Titles include: equations and inequalities, linear equations... -
An Annotated List of Web Resources for Math Educators Kindergarten-LifelongA comprehensive list of useful web resources for teachers in K-16 settings. Titles include: Math Forum; MATHCOUNTS; A+ Math; Math Goodies; Exactly How is Math Used in Technology?; Students Math Notes; Texas Instruments Educational Resources; The Grey Labyrinth;... -
Andrews University Mathematics: Precalculus Algebra Tertiary-LifelongJoon Hyuk Kang's course outlines for Andrews University mathematics courses: Precalculus Algebra; Precalculus Trigonometry; Introduction to Linear Algebra; Applied Mathematics. -
Andrews University Mathematics: Introduction to Applied Statistics Grade 11-LifelongShandelle Henson's course outlines for Andrews University mathematics courses: Introduction to Applied Statistics. -
Are Your Students Scared to Death of Mathematics? Kindergarten-Grade 12This article from the JAE special math issue deals with how to help students overcome their fear of math, in particular problem solving. Suggestions for how to teach problem solving include teachers preparing themselves to teach, helping students develop a... -
Artificial Intelligence from the Foundations of Mathematics To Intelligent Computers Tertiary-LifelongThis paper examines "the ramifications of artificial intelligence (AI) from a Christian perspective. -
Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences Tertiary-LifelongA network of Christian mathematicians dedicated to integrating mathematics with faith and to promoting quality teaching. Website includes information about conferences, membership and the free online journal. -
Book Review - Supporting Mathematical Thinking Kindergarten-LifelongIn this TEACH Journal article, the authors review an informative source for teaching mathematics in K-6 and lower secondary classrooms. Book refer begins in second column of the document. -
Chaos - A New Mathematical Paradigm Tertiary-LifelongHowe briefly explains what chaos is and outlines "how this theory can inform and modify our mathematical worldview."It is also the hope of the author that the reader will be able to apply the theory to their respective discipline. This paper... -
Computers and Mathematics - A Revolution in Progress Kindergarten-Grade 12Computer technology has a great capacity to help students with mastery in mathematics through drill and practice or problem solving, using Logo to develop concepts, concentration on problem solving techniques, cooperative learning with computers, and moving... -
Contemporary Ideas for Teaching Secondary-Level Mathematics Grade 9-Grade 12Robert Moore and Ted Hodgson present practical ideas for teaching secondary math classes. These include using mathematical software; letting students teach concepts; emphasizing the connectedness of mathematics; addressing the cognitive and affective components... -
Curriculum Frameworks for Adventist Secondary Schools in SPD Grade 7-Grade 12Essential curriculum development tools for Christian secondary schools, these downloadable frameworks outline the Adventist philosophy, values and principles, and show teachers how valuing, thinking and other learning skills can be taught from a Christian... -
Discovering Geometry Through Patch-Pictures Kindergarten-Grade 8This article discusses the use of geometric shapes to make pictures. Students learn that the 'prime figures' can be combined to make new shapes, and that shapes can overlap. In using their creativity, students can learn and understand aspects of geometry through... -
Discovering Large and Small Numbers Grade 3-Grade 8In using a hands-on activity involving grains of sand, teachers can help students comprehend difficult concepts such as the relationship between numbers and weights or the properties of large and small numbers. The article provides practical examples of how... -
Empirical development of an instructional product and its impact on mastery of geometry concepts Kindergarten-Grade 12Problem: Relatively poor levels of mathematical thinking among American school children have been identified as a major issue over the past half century. Many efforts have been made to increase the mathematics performance of children in schools. Additionally,... -
Everyone Wins With Math Teams Kindergarten-Grade 8A successful way of helping elementary students achieve success in math is to develop Math Teams comprised of student/teacher teams at school, and student/family teams at home. The home team is made up of parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and interested family... -
Fundamentals of Math - Unit Plan Grade 7-Grade 12"This unit attempts to explain the fundamental principles that govern higher math courses such as Advanced Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Probability & Statistics, and Calculus. Not every principle is covered, but the majority of them are. With... -
Girls Are Scientists, Too! Kindergarten-TertiaryWho are scientists? Teachers must challenging the stereotype that exist both within and outside the classroom, and create an environment where girls are encouraged to reach their full potential in the study of the sciences. This can be done by providing role... -
God in Nature - Revelation of the Divine Mathematician Tertiary-LifelongThompson "presents a mathematical model of creation, deterioration and restoration as a starting point for the (mathematics) teacher... mathematical applications have been used to help illustrate the processes by which God makes Himself known to us--His... -
Highschool Textbook Supplements SSD Grade 5-Grade 12Adventist teachers' handbooks for integrating faith and values. These are practical guides with a variety of approaches to teaching key values, illustrations and examples. Separate booklets are available for each subject, including: Art, Business, Computer,... -
Holiday Materials - March - Teacher Bulletin Volume 6 Grade 1-Grade 5Special holidays in the month of March include American Red Cross Month, Music in our Schools Month, National Women's History Month, National Nutrition Month, Youth Art Month, Adoption of the U.S. National Anthem, National School Breakfast Week, Newspaper... -
Improving Math Achievement Test Scores Kindergarten-Grade 8This article from the JAE special math issue suggests techniques for assuring success in math achievement tests and analyzes the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Teachers should test students frequently throughout the school year, use questions that will recall... -
Integrating Christian Values and Learning in the Teaching of Mathematics Tertiary-LifelongThe author "focuses on how values integration can be done in a mathematics classroom. Specifically, it aims to answer the following questions: 1. What are the moral, social, and spiritual values that can be integrated in mathematics teaching from... -
Integration of Faith in Mathematics Grade 1-Grade 12This document provides a template of North American Division Mathematics standards, related Bible texts, and applications for spiritual emphasis. A philosophical basis, personal strategies, and thematic strategies are also included. -
Interaction, Service, and Outreach Grade 9-Grade 12A unique curriculum proposal for an interaction, service, and outreach program for Adventist secondary schools. Guidelines for implementation and samples of projects and scheduling for physical education, math, geography, Bible classes and all-school projects... -
JAE Editorial: The Blessings of Math Kindergarten-Grade 12In this editorial Beverly Robinson-Rumble explores the rationale that mathematics, taught from a Christian perspective, can not only prepare students to enter the highly technological world of the 21st Century, but also help them understand the fundamental... -
JAE: Of Interest to Teachers Kindergarten-LifelongThis Journal of Adventist Education column features current news, reports, and updates of interest to educators. In this issue: TIME Magazine Launching New Classroom Publication; What Makes Students Perform Well in Math?; Schools Have Limited... -
Kuyer Mathematics Online Grade 7-Grade 12This math curriculum "integrates a Christian approach, using mathematics to think about and better understand God, his creation, and our place and calling in the world." The math curriculum has 9 lessons to enrich a high school level mathematics... -
Launching a Program of Individualized Math Instruction Kindergarten-Grade 12The purpose of this article in the JAE special math issue is to provide a model for individualization in math instruction that caters to the uniqueness of each child. Advice given is designed to assist teachers in implementing a model that will help children... -
Lively Math Teaching-- What is it? How is it Done? Kindergarten-Grade 12This article in the JAE special math issue introduces elements that teachers must have and what they must do to have successful and lively math classes. Teachers must compile concise yearly goals for their pupils; inspect the textbook and select supplementary... -
Making Education Work Kindergarten-Grade 12The combined efforts of school and home as well as reading, phonics, math, writing, science, and homework are important areas in which schools can make education work. A discussion of the U.S. Department of Education's "What Works: Research About Teaching... -
Math and Reading Help For Kids Preschool-Grade 10Math and Reading Help for Kids is a directory of hundreds of original articles, tips, and resources centered on the topic of children's learning. Although the articles in this site are primarily written to help parents make informed decisions about their child's... -
Math Anxiety: Helping Students Learn to Succeed Grade 7-Grade 12Research reveals a relationship between math anxiety and under-performing in math. Sydney Samuel shares the reasons why high school and college age students have difficulty mastering concepts in mathematics. An overview of difficulties that take place at the... -
Math-Related Problems of Dyslexia Kindergarten-Grade 12Strategies for helping the learning-disabled child master math. Math difficulties may be traced to dyslexia and/or reading related problems, may be part of an overall learning disability, but for some math may be the only subject in which they have problems.... -
Mathematics - A catalyst for faith? Tertiary"A number of features of mathematics and its relation to the sciences speak in harmony with Scripture’s revelation of God. Can this serve as a catalyst for faith?" -
Mathematics Curriculum Framework SPD Grade 5-Grade 12An essential curriculum development tool for Christian secondary schools, this downloadable framework outlines the Adventist philosophy, values and principles, and shows teachers how valuing, thinking and other learning skills can be taught from a Christian... -
Mathematics Standards: Who Needs Them? Kindergarten-Grade 12The authors of this article argue in support of the new mathematical standards which allow teachers to create learning environments that promote active involvement in mathematics, and provide opportunities for students to speak and write about mathematics,... -
NAD K-12 Textbook Lists Grade 9-Grade 12Access the current textbook recommendations for Adventist elementary and secondary schools operating in the North American Division. Note that some unions have supplements for their schools. -
NAD Mathematics Curriculum Guide K-12 Kindergarten-Grade 12This NAD curriculum guide outlines the Adventist philosophy and rationale in maths education K-12, spiritual concepts, goals, and specific objectives for each subtopic for each grade level. NOTE: Rather than rely on older curriculum guides, NAD... -
Nurturing Faith in Math Class Grade 11-Tertiary"When are we ever going to use this?" is a common question asked by math students, according to Robert Moore, and math teachers should provide a ready response, realizing that this query is not just a complaint, but a simple desire to understand... -
Probability and Statistics Unit Plan Grade 11-TertiaryThis faith integrated probability and statistics unit plan challenges student to (1) appropriately manage personal finances, (2) develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data, and (3) understand and apply basic concepts of probability.... -
Problems Arising From Streaming Mathematics Students in Australian Christian Secondary Schools Grade 8-Grade 12This TEACH journal article focuses on selected sections of a wider research study that investigated the perceptions of students in upper, lower, and mixed-ability stream mathematics classes, regarding their classroom learning environment. The most significant... -
Relationships between learning style preferences of selected elementary pupils and their achievement in Math and Reading Kindergarten-Grade 12The purpose was to determine (1) which learning style elements, as characteristic of High and of Low Achievers in Math and in Reading, effectively discriminate between these groups, and (2) which learning style elements may be predictors of achievement in... -
Resolution of Arithmetic Accounts - The Potential of 3rd Grade Students of an Elementary School in Palmas, Tocantins Grade 3-TertiaryThis work aims to discuss mathematics education and to value the student's thinking. The subject is contextualized with the reality and and potentialities of the students of the 3rd grade of elementary school in Palmas, TO. By analyzing the performance of... -
Revitalizing the Mathematics Learning Environment Kindergarten-Grade 12In the math classroom, the teacher should focus on students understanding concepts rather than overemphasizing obtaining correct answers. Students should be encouraged to look at many ways of solving problems, not merely the 'right one' the teacher provides.... -
Science and Christian Belief Grade 11-LifelongScience & Christian Belief is a journal concerned with the interactions of science and religion, with particular reference to Christianity. The traffic of ideas between science and religion has been flowing for many centuries and shows no signs... -
Solving the Multiplication Table Dilemma Grade 3-Grade 8Roy shares how strategies in the Rebecca Sitton Spelling Workshop finds can be successfully implemented in the math classroom in order to help students to master multiplication tables. One important strategy discussed in this article is the importance of posting... -
Strategies for Integrating Faith in Mathematics Kindergarten-Grade 12This article's philosophical basis is that mathematics is an integral part of God's creation and an understanding of its concepts will lead to discerning spiritual truths in mathematical principles, relationships, and processes. By doing this, teachers will... -
Students With Difficulties in Visual/Spatial Perception, Processing, and/or Recall Kindergarten-Grade 12A useful compilation of hands-on, practical suggestions for working with students who have difficulties with visual/spatial perception, auditory perception, vocabulary development, processing, and/or recall. -
Teacher Training - Can it Improve Elementary Math TertiaryThis article from the JAE special math issue discusses how to train teachers for elementary math instruction, both preservice and in-service teachers. Components of a math methods course are demanding proficiency in the basic math skills; merging an understanding... -
Technology and the Secondary Curriculum Grade 9-Grade 12This article from the JAE special technology and education issue examines how secondary teachers can help students become technologically literate by integrating technology into the subjects currently being taught. Suggestions for integrating technology into... -
Technology Ideas for Enhancing Math Curriculum Kindergarten-Grade 12Learn about software and management ideas for using technology in your math curriculum. Explore Internet resources to supplement your hands-on classroom activities. Gather ideas for the one or two computer classroom. Experience math & technology activities... -
The Finite, the Infinite, and God Grade 9-LifelongClarke explores infinity and how it can influence our understanding of our Creator and our relation to him. This paper was presented at the first Institute of Christian Teaching. -
The formal, the planned, and the learned curriculum in an elementary education methods course for mathematics - Three perspectives on course content Kindergarten-Grade 12One of the most common questions mathematics teachers hear from their students is a question of content value: "When am I ever going to use this?" This research paper looks at the question of content value for students enrolled in an elementary methods... -
The Joy of Faith and the Challenge of Science Tertiary-Lifelong"How does one face the challenges of science even as one reaches up to hold on to the joy of faith?" -
The Learning-Disabled Child: A Challenge for Christian Teachers Kindergarten-Grade 12This article from the JAE special exceptional child issue questions how Christian teachers can deal with learning-disabled children. Children must be tested to determine their specific problem, then given material at the proper reading level. Ideas for teaching... -
The relationship of self-concept, sex, age, major, anxiety, mathematics background, and mathematics ability to the level of mathematics and statistical anxiety among college juniors TertiaryProblem: One's choice of career has significant effect upon one's future life in terms of earning potential and social interaction. Mathematics/statistical anxiety and the mathematics avoidance often accompanying such anxiety, can influence career choice,... -
The Use of Mathematical Games for Teaching Fractions TertiaryGames have been proposed as an important teaching strategy. However, the suggestions are usually very vague and there is little research on the on the success of their use in specific educational situations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how... -
Tips - Math Approaches for Children Kindergarten-Grade 8A handout for parents suggesting approaches they can take and activities they can do to help their children learn math. -
Understanding How Nature Works - Last Piece of the Puzzle? Grade 11-LifelongThe ubiquity of dynamic and complex systems and chaos has helped mathematicians recognize the limitations of the scientific process and the wider scope of mathematics. They also offer some new opportunities for the believer in a Creator God to enlarge his... -
Walla Walla Engineering Courses - Rob Frohne Tertiary-LifelongRob Frohne's class notes and links for Walla Walla Engineering Classes he teaches include: Engineering Circuit Analysis (ENGR 228), Engineering Electronics I (ENGR 356), Engineering Electronics II (ENGR 357), Analog Design (ENGR 432), Electromagnetic Propagation and Radiation (ENGR 452), Signals & Systems (ENGR 455), Communications Systems (ENGR 456). -
Writing in the Math Class Kindergarten-Grade 8There is an increased emphasis in writing across the curriculum. This article gives many practical suggestions for incorporating writing in the math class. These suggestions range from explaining processes to writing poems, letters, and story problems.