Loreen won the Eurovision in 2012 with Euphoria one of the greatest Eurovision songs ever written. Here she returns withTattoo, a pop anthem about fighting for love to survive. If Loreen wins, Sweden will equal Ireland’s record number of seven wins. She will also become the second performer to win the contest twice as a singer joining Irish Eurovision legend Johnny Logan.
Loreen won the Eurovision in 2012 with Euphoria one of the greatest Eurovision songs ever written. Here she returns withTattoo, a pop anthem about fighting for love to survive. If Loreen wins, Sweden will equal Ireland’s record number of seven wins. She will also become the second performer to win the contest twice as a singer joining Irish Eurovision legend Johnny Logan.
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Math teachers are rethinking student assessments in creative ways that allow them to get a broader picture of kids’ conceptual math understanding, writes Madeline Will for
Education Week. And while this creative approach to assessing student knowledge is, at least in part, due to remote learning, the strategies are powerful and make sense during a normal school year.
“I think this is good for a lot of us math teachers because it’s forced us to rethink what assessments are supposed to accomplish,” math teacher Matthew Rector told Will. “In the past, most of us have thought about assessments as ranking tools give a kid a grade and move on. Assessments should be about moving mathematical knowledge forward.”
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For Kyle Pahigian, a 10th-grade math teacher at University Park Campus School in Massachusetts, a lesson on congruent triangles doesn’t start with calculators and protractors. Instead, she hands her students a treasure map and asks them to write detailed directions using landmarks as a guide to the buried treasure.
“I won’t tell the kids right away, ‘Today we’re going to learn about triangle congruence theorems,’” said Pahigian. “I want them to instead view it as them experimenting with something and doing something that they feel like they’re really good at.” Students often feel intimidated by math, and transforming the activity into a writing exercise eases some of the anxiety of introducing difficult concepts, she said.