- Talking to Parents about Summer Math Work, Grades Kg – 4
- Notes on Math Fluency – Part One
- Thoughts on Teaching Math for Equity
- Speed Is Not Intelligence – Part 3
- Speed Is Not Intelligence – Part 2
- Speed is Not Intelligence – Part 1
- Ending Math Anxiety
- “Bring Your Knitting”
- Building a Thinking Classroom
- Slow Is The New Fast
- Download Free – A Whole Year of Lesson Plans for 4th, 5th or 6th grade math!
- Teaching Long Division So It Makes Sense
- Asilomar Presentation
- More Word Problems
- ‘Mystery’ Warm-Ups, plus: Starting our Unit on Patterns
- Fractions with Legos
- Fractions: Transferring From Blocks to Word Problems
- Why Withhold the Fraction Algorithm?
- Egyptian Fractions… This Learning Pyramid was STEEP!
- Homework – How Much? How Hard?
- Four Investigations and a Question
- Back-to-School Night
- Starting the year: Logic, Fractions and Similes
- Our 5th Grade Math Blog — Version 2.0
- Nearing the end… How are we doing? Self-assessment time for us.
- Problem-solving beats vocabulary
- Teaching Angles
- The Case for Withholding Algorithms (For a While!)
- Decimal Multiplication – a Visual Approach
- Teaching Decimals with Decimal Squares
- And Quizzes? How are we doing?
- Homework: Goals and Structure
- Experimenting with 3-act Activities
- Part 2 of “What Does Remediation Look Like?” Michael’s silence. Plus Exploding Dots.
- What Does Remediation Look Like? Aka “Bring Your Knitting”
- Looking at Quizzes- Part 2 … How are we doing?
- Looking at Quizzes- Part 1 … How are we doing?
- Galaxies, Pennies and Grains of Rice
- Group and Independent Practice: Multiplying and Dividing with Powers of Ten
- Multiply and Divide by Powers of Ten
- Starting the Multiplication Unit
- Review Lesson: Fractions, Word Problems and Patterns.
- WHAT IS A SANDWICH UNIT?
- One Review Lesson
- 3 Investigations and 3 Homeworks – Investigating Patterns
- The Collatz Conjecture via Mathpickle
- Can ‘Not Knowing’ be Engaging? Can ‘Figuring it Out’ Be Fun?
- More on Assessment – Takeaways from our Second Quiz
- What Does a Daily Lesson Look Like? Four Days of Activities
- What About Assessment and Grading? PART THREE
- What About Assessment and Grading? Part TWO
- What About Assessment and Grading? PART ONE
- More HW examples
- Bar Fractions and Snowflake Fractions
- What About Homework?
- WEEK THREE – Activity TWO – More Word Problems
- WEEK THREE – Activity One; Word Problems, + a Note on Differentiation
- WEEK TWO – Activity Two – Toblerone Fractions
- WEEK TWO – Activity One – Capture the Fraction Circle
- WEEK ONE – Activity Three – Fraction Strips
- WEEK ONE – Activity Two – The Lady and the Tiger
- WEEK ONE – Activity One – A Logic Problem
- Our Goals in Teaching Math
- The Journey Begins