“Students Learn by Doing” is Only Part of the Story
Back when I was pursuing my teaching degree, I learned that students learn by doing. As we studied Bruner and... View Article
Back when I was pursuing my teaching degree, I learned that students learn by doing. As we studied Bruner and... View Article
Blog post #6 in the series, Lies We Tell Our Students As a specialist in elementary mathematics teaching and learning,... View Article
Blog post #5 in the series, Lies We Tell Our Students Many of the mathematics “rules” we teach students in... View Article
Blog post #4 in the series, Lies We Tell Our Students Let’s be clear…this “lie” is not really about counting.... View Article
Blog post #3 in the series, Lies We Tell Our Students The precision of our explanations matters! The words we... View Article
Blog post #2 in the series, Lies We Tell Our Students We all know what a run-on sentence is. We’ve... View Article
Serious Play-Part 4 Why is it that some games get played over and over while others remain on the shelf... View Article
Serious Play, Part 3 Playing math games in the classroom offers so many benefits! Depending on the game at hand,... View Article
I hear these questions all the time — “What math tools should be available in my classroom?” “Which manipulatives purchase... View Article
Do you experience points during the school year that send you into a mini-panic about where your kids currently are... View Article
Years ago, I walked into a Weight Watchers meeting, shy, self-conscious, and unsure of what to expect. After signing my... View Article
Problem Solving Song sung to Row, Row, Row Your Boat “Problems come along in many different ways… Follow these steps... View Article
When do “rough draft” and “math task” ever land in the same sentence? Honestly, when I first heard these two... View Article
As a young child, I hated PE class. I had embarrassingly poor eye-hand coordination, so when a football, softball, kickball,... View Article
Everyone is born creative. And then somewhere down the line, many lose sight of it. In his classic Ted Talk,... View Article