How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?
Are your students wondering why they have to learn about exponents and scientific notation? Will they ever use this if …
Category Archives: Grade 8 / Course 3
Arabesque, Pirouette, Cha-cha-cha
As with a dance, problems become much more interesting when they are composed of several different kinds of steps. Do …
Struggle: Building Strength or Revealing Weakness?
Do you ever feel like you are helping your students too much and doing the thinking for them? Are you …
The Power of a Power
Are your students confused trying to memorize all the rules for exponents? Begin with a simple analogy. Just as multiplication …
NCTM President Discusses Rigor
What should rigor look like in a math classroom? Click here for a discussion by Linda Gojak, President of the …
One Hundred Problems
As we near the one hundredth day of school, here are 100 problems to challenge students in grades 3 and …
Dan Meyer on Real World Math
Click here to watch the video. Reflect: ~ How can you make questions at your grade level irresistible to students …
…and the answer is…..
Grade 1: Question: Seven apples were on the table. I ate some apples. Then there were four apples. How many …
“One is a fraction and the other one is a number”
The title of this post was a 4th grade student’s response to the question True or false: 3/4 = .34 …
Tell Me All You Can Prompts
Another great idea from a Math Solutions presentation on Making Sense of Fraction Computations: Tell Me All You Can prompts …
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