Are Your Mathematics Games C, P, or A?
Serious Play #4 Imagine this…you walk into a noisy, bustling classroom where students are spread out in small groups at... View Article
Serious Play #4 Imagine this…you walk into a noisy, bustling classroom where students are spread out in small groups at... View Article
Because we have been talking a lot about fluency in the past few blog posts, it suddenly occurred to me... View Article
Welcome to Part 4 of our Fluency Series! In Part 3, we discussed fluency with early number concepts such as... View Article
When Josie, a young athlete, had the goal of making her middle-school basketball team, she spent time preparing for tryouts.... View Article
When you think about the term “math fluency,” what comes to mind? My guess is that the first thing, and... View Article
I hear these questions all the time — “What math tools should be available in my classroom?” “Which manipulatives purchase... View Article
Becoming a teacher-turned-inventor never crossed my mind earlier in my career. However, since joining forces with Peggy, this is the... View Article
Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t already read John Van de Walle’s Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics, you’re going to want to get... View Article
A while back, I was talking with a fourth-grade teacher at my school. She questioned, “What did the third-grade teachers... View Article
“Multiplication makes bigger and division makes smaller.” “You can’t subtract a larger number from a smaller number.” “Improper fractions should... View Article
Summertime… a time to relax, a time to learn, a time to catch up, a time to dream and to... View Article
We’ve all done it…teaching rules without meaning. For me it was rounding rules. I had found the perfect song. The... View Article
When was the last time you tried to teach a young child to count coins? If you’re like me, you... View Article