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Teaching Math to Middle School Boys

Teacher Tom Wolken uses technology tools and timed challenges to teach math at Olmsted Academy North, an all-boys middle school in Louisville, Kentucky.

Teacher Tom Wolken uses technology tools and timed challenges to teach math at Olmsted Academy North, an all-boys middle school in Louisville, Kentucky.
Download | Credits | Release Date: 12/18/2009

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Video Credits

Produced, Written, and Directed by

  • Ken Ellis

Editor

  • Karen Sutherland

Associate Producer

  • Doug Keely

Camera Crew

  • Rob Weller
  • Mark Crowner

Coordinating Producer

  • Amy Erin Borovoy

Narration

  • Peter Coyote

Original Music

  • Ed Bogas

Additional Footage Courtesy of

  • Jefferson County Public Schools
  • © 2009
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • All rights reserved.

Support for Edutopia's Schools That Work series is provided, in part, by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

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Middle School Math

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The video demonstrates quite nicely the need for visual and kinesthetic instructional methods in the class room. I love the fact the he utilizes the competitive nature of boys to help them focus. It would be very nice to have all the technology available in my class room.

Special Education Math

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I find the more I can put a project into -- hands on components or become a project my students might actually be interested in-- the more they are engaged. I would love to have a document camera.