Fractions, Multiplication-Division, Number Sense |
I’ve been getting lots of requests to talk about what number sense looks like for upper grades kiddos, especially upper elementary and even into middle school. I have been talking about these four number relationships that I first discovered through John Van de...
Multiplication-Division |
Is there a WRONG way to use the area model? I think so, but you may disagree with me. I don’t know where this started, but I am very tired of seeing area models being modeled incorrectly. It is so prevalent that I even saw one of the keynote speakers at an...
Fractions, Multiplication-Division, Time-Measurement-Data |
The other day I had one of the best days I’ve had in a long time out in the schools. After watching Dan Meyer’s webinar about the 3 Act Math Tasks and then reading everything I could on Dan’s blog as well as many others, I created two of my own 3...
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