Estimation, Fact Fluency, Strategy Development, Teacher Content
I’ll start off by saying that I’m definitely not a Number Talks guru and over the past 4 years I’ve learned just enough to be dangerous! The first day of school is less than 12 days away and my summer is over! Thankfully I’ve had the...
Games, Making Math Accessible, SMPs, Strategy Development, Teacher Content
Last week I was working with a group of amazing teachers while conducting a workshop for the Georgia Department of Education. These 2 day workshops can be mentally draining for participants so I purposefully slide games in throughout the 12 hours. It was during one...
Cheese Mover, Strategy Development
This whole “how to teach math without numerals” kick I’m on is blowing my mind. I tried this out in a 3rd grade class using one of my favorite problems. Here’s how two students solved this problem and what’s awesome about it is that they used completely...
Fact Fluency, Strategy Development
As part of the #MTBoS 3rd mission we needed to choose a collaborative website and I want to give a huge shout out to @fawnpnguyen and http://www.visualpatterns.org/. I have used her website in the past for developing k-2 lessons and if you haven’t visited to...
