Kathleen and Corrinne are pleased to announce the launch of their new website. You can follow us there on a day-by-day basis – a whole
Long division is perhaps as difficult for a 4th or 5th grader as Calculus is for a high school senior. The multiple steps are so
“Making Sense of Word Problems”. Feel free to use or edit as you like. CMC-WP
1. Two More Fun Warm-ups Reviewing Word Problems We have seen our 8th graders struggle with algebra problems that involve “the number of bills”
REVIEWING MADE FUN! We found on our second quiz that many students were still struggling with word problems. (Correct student quiz answers here.) So we
Word Problems – YAY! Our intensive use of Cuisenaire rods came to fruition now as we attempt to transfer fraction visualization to word problems. Here
According to this article by Jo Boaler — professor of mathematics education at Stanford and co-founder of http://www.youcubed.org — math memorizers scored poorly on the
First of all, we’re glad we did this new unit. It uses Cuisenaire rods extensively. However, it was hard! There were pitfalls and things we
Ah… Homework Raise your hand if you remember hating homework as a child … Raise your hand if you have children and hate it when