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Tip 78. Show your students the limits of working memory
You can access a good online memory tester here You can download the PowerPoint I use with students here: If you want a deep dive into working memory capacity, check out The Magical Mystery Four: How is Working Memory Capacity Limited, and Why? here General links
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Tip 77. Show your students the path to high storage and retrieval strength
Robert Bjork discusses the retrieval and storage strength of memories here The Learning Scientists have a great post about the distinction between retrieval and storage strength here Tom Sherrington writes about rehearsing first before retrieval here General links
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Tip 76. Show your students the Forgetting Curve
You can download my version of the Forgetting Curve here You can read about the history of the Forgetting Curve here General links
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Tip 75. Occasionally let students do work in someone else’s book
An interesting 2013 study into peer assessment by Jette Hansen Edwards is here Stuart Bloom discusses using peer assessment as an effective learning strategy here General links
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Tip 74. Nine ideas to help you observe student work with a purpose
Summary of all 9 ideas: Doug Lemov describes active observation in Teach like a Champion 3.0, avaiable here Ollie Lovell writes about active observation here Adam Boxer has lots of useful insights about observing students work in his excellent book, Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide, available here General links
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Tip 73. Consider using “no-number” questions
The original Twitter thread, which contains additional examples plus comments, is here General links
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Tip 72. Consider using Intelligent Practice
I describe the Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain framework in detail in my book, Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain, available here The probability activity is available here The percentages method selection activity is available here The straight line graphs fill in the gaps activity is available here I have lots of these types of sequences on my Variation…
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Tip 71. How to harness the hidden power of interleaving
You can read the Roher paper, A randomized controlled trial of interleaved mathematics practice, here You can read about Bjorks’ desirable difficulties here My SSDD Problems collection is here Helen Konstantine’s incredible website is here You can read the paper, The benefit of interleaved mathematics practice is not limited to superficially similar kinds of problems,…
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Tip 70. Eight ideas to improve student practice time
Summary of all 8 ideas: A summary of Adam’s 3-30-30 approach is here Not directly related to the tip (but fascinating) is a thread by MorgsEd about challenge in lessons here General links
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Tip 69. Beware of seductive details
The paper, Keep it Coherent: A Meta-Analysis of the Seductive Details Effect, is available here General links