Cheese Mover, Fact Fluency, Teaching in a Context
What did SMP #1 say to the flash card? ……”You suck!” We’ve been using a math reasoning inventory as our benchmark assessment for the past 5 years. In that time there’s been tremendous growth (in small pockets), but...
Intellectual Need, Teaching in a Context
Grinding through testing season and I found a minute to get back in the classroom. Today, I was able to make it in a kindergarten class to wrestle with something Dan Meyer mentioned during his NCSM Webinar (my world rocked @ 7 minutes and 15 seconds). Dan said that...
Against the Norm, Making Math Accessible, Teaching in a Context
Think about the majority of K-2 students and the thought process they go through when encountering a word problem. Normally they read the problem focusing solely on the two quantities and engage in a game of craps. They throw the dice and hope that the operation they...
Making Math Accessible, Measurement and Data, Patient Problem Solving, Teaching in a Context
Our 3rd grade team has been working on area the past few days. This team of teachers is awesome to work with because (A.) they put up with me and (B.) their willingness to try “new ideas” and push themselves as educators. Some lessons have gone really...