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These guidelines give detailed instructions for setting up and maintaining a safe chemistry lab.

Don't you love a good project? Take some time to develop the thing, but once you roll it out to the students, the students are engaged, and you get to stand back and watch them work. You get to advise them as they dig deeply into...

We get our students asking us this question in multiple different ways: “But why do I need to memorize facts when I can look up facts on the Internet? No problem. We have Wikipedia. We have, well, Google, just in general. We have...

When students tell you they can’t do something, what are they really saying? What’s behind the expression of defeat? John Mark suggests three possibilities: the student may be expressing a belief about people in general; the...

You have just presented the best project of the year to your students. The students start working, and automatically you see that they are not motivated. They might not say "I don't care," but their actions tell you otherwise....

"Why should we memorize facts when we can look them up online?" What are students thinking when they ask this? John Mark attacks the question head-on and also gives ideas for what may be going on "behind the scenes" in our...

When faced with a difficult concept or task, students often ask, "When will I ever learn this?" What is behind this familiar and frustrating response? In most cases, John Mark suggests, the question signals confusion or a lack of...

I've just finished teaching a lesson in trigonometry, a lesson on proving identities. And I've led the students through some really intricate steps, these involved some non-obvious substitutions. Like, for example, replacing...

I'm finished with class. The students are starting to work on their problems. Billy again. You know Billy. Billy says, "I don't know how to do this problem." It's today's problem. There are examples on the board. Billy doesn't...

John Mark outlines forty objectives, five requirements, and the materials and methods for a class focusing on the physical earth and a Christian orientation towards it. Download the syllabus now or preview below

Over the last several years, I have spent significant time trying to understand and implement the best methods for teaching mathematics--especially to students who think they don't like mathematics. Several ideas have risen to...