Cheese Mover, Intellectual Need, Making Math Accessible, Modeling, Planning, SMPs, Strategy Development, Teacher Content, Who Knows?
I received an email from a principal in my district last Tuesday: Please send me info on why teachers should be careful about teaching kids to pull out keywords from word problems as a key way to define what operation to use. I went to my Virtual Math Buddies (VMB)...
Making Math Accessible, Strategy Development, Teaching in a Context
I returned to the class where I sucked more than Maggie Simpson. I wrote about it here. The highlights from yesterday’s do-over: For the most part it went way better and the additional pieces I created to scaffold the lesson helped out. Some students...
Fact Fluency, Making Math Accessible, Strategy Development, Teacher Content
Question: If you memorize your basic math facts have you learned them? The term from memory is used twice in the K-5 math standards, and they continue to be the most misunderstood words I encounter each day. The term “from memory” does not suggest that...
Against the Norm, Making Math Accessible, Math Tools, Strategy Development, Teacher Content
The concept of 10 more/less is a beast in the primary grades. Last week I realized that I’ve been feeding the monster that I’m continually trying to defeat. Almost every day, in every K-2 classroom across the United States students encounter this guy: I made a...
Making Math Accessible, Strategy Development, Teacher Content
The power of sharing, collaborating and giving credit where it’s due! This post is because of Joe Schwartz sharing his awesomeness at Exit 10A. Joe got the idea from Nicora Placa’s post on tape modeling. She cites 3 sources in her post which are...
Strategy Development, Teaching in a Context
I posted about CGI a while back and Katherine Bryant asked if I’d take a sneak peek at the 2nd Edition of Children’s Mathematics (released next month)… and I’m so happy she did. After my 2nd go around I can’t help but think how CGI has changed me as...