Teaching Math to the Core
Grab some popcorn, sit back, and relax while watching four math teachers who challenge and inspire their students to engage in …
Category Archives: Kindergarten
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 …
NCTM President Discusses Rigor
What should rigor look like in a math classroom? Click here for a discussion by Linda Gojak, President of the …
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 …
“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 …
Another great book
Watch this short video of Christine Moynihan, author of Math Sense: The Look, Sound, and Feel of Effective Instruction. In …
Dynamic Paper Tool
Here’s a great resource from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Illuminations site that allows you to print customized …
What mathematics do teachers need to know?
For anyone planning to teach K-12 mathematics in the era of the Common Core Standards, this report from the Conference Board …
Bedtime Math
Be sure to visit Bedtime Math daily for fun, informative stories accompanied by math problems for your students at three levels.
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