Enjoy our four consecutive days of investigation lessons, plus one BIG question: “Why the investigations? Are they worth the time invested?”

We’re hosting Back-to-School night tomorrow. Here are our editable slides that can be either projected or printed out for parents. Break a leg!

Reminding ourselves of our goals: Higher achievement for all by slowing down the curriculum. Aiming for visualization and conceptual understanding over memorization. Providing challenge for

Welcome Back!    Here we go – Year Two of our blog. (You can read more about us  here.) We’ve had a great summer, and approach

It’s time to look at recent quizzes and evaluate the progress we’ve made this year. Why is it we teachers remember the slips, the failures,

Sorry we’ve been incommunicado for a while! In the last month, we’ve had one week of outdoor education (camping), one week of spring break(yay!), one

We are surprised every year (re-surprised?) at the most common mistakes fifth graders make around angles. What’s NOT surprising: The difficulty of choosing WHICH of

In 1998, Tom Carpenter and his colleagues documented grades 1–3 students’ use of invented strategies and standard algorithms. The vast majority of students in the

Our 8th grade teachers tell us that of the most confusing ideas for students is the difference between linear units (the sides of a rectangle)

The most visual, most fun way to learn decimals is with decimal squares. We use decimal squares we bought from https://decimalsquares.com  several years ago.  They