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Category Archives: Grade 4
Principles to Actions opens the door to the Chinese Room
A recent post on Dan Meyer’s blog began a discussion about the amount of real learning going on in math classes, …
Can math class be creative?
Consider this eight grader’s take on how to encourage creativity and deeper math learning in your class.
Research Results to Transform Math Learning
More from Stanford’s Jo Boaler: read about recent research that is sure to make you reflect on your own teaching …
Number Talks
Watch Professor Jo Boaler from Stanford University explain how to use number talks to help students increase number sense, become …
Problem of the week 6/3/2014
Mr. Bender made some muffins. He sold 3/5 of them in the morning and 1⁄4 of the remainder in the …
50 problems to reason your way through the end of the school year
Looking for some fun problems to fill the last days of school? Enjoy these! 1. Judy and Dan both collect …
Looking for structure in word problems
By grade 4, students have worked with all four operations and are expected to solve multi-step word problems. Research tells …
Understanding Cross Multiplication
Students seem to love using cross multiplication to compare fractions and check for equivalence; this simple, mysterious procedure will assure …
Place Value: Why all the fuss?
Our students “get” place value, right? I mean it’s not rocket science; we teach them to know the names of …
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