The Best Math Assessment Tool That Informs Instruction
I’m sharing a little bit about student-centered teaching, the true meaning of assess, and what I think is The Best Math Assessment Tool (that actually informs your instruction).
Why Subtraction With Borrowing is Bad
Inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group here, we had a post last month asking for a way to teach subtraction with borrowing to a 2nd grader. So, today we are going to take a look at Why Subtraction With Borrowing is Bad in our quest to Build our own Math Minds so we can Build the Math Minds of our kiddos.
An Often Unused Way to Collaborate Within Your School: Vertical PD Meetings
As you start to make the change in your teaching to one that allows more student thinking, don’t throw out your current math resources. Use these 4 Cs for adapting math resources to encourage student thinking.
Adapting Math Resources to Encourage Student Thinking
As you start to make the change in your teaching to one that allows more student thinking, don’t throw out your current math resources. Use these 4 Cs for adapting math resources to encourage student thinking.
Allowing Student Thinking by Changing The Way We Grade
One of the biggest changes in math education is moving from the type of teaching that is “listen to my directions and follow those steps on every problem after” to a type of teaching math that is more about letting kids use their own thinking processes to come up with the answers to problems. One of the ways that can be the most challenging to change is in our grading.
Evaluating Math Manipulatives
When we are all really scarce for time and money, it’s important to make decisions about what you’re going to spend your time and money on to help your students build their math minds. So here’s 3 things that I look at when I am trying to evaluate a math manipulative.
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