Pre-service Elementary Ed Students and Student Loans
One of my jobs is teaching Math for Elementary Education at a university nearby. Most of the students who take the course are Freshmen and Sophomores. This semester I gave them an extra credit assignment designed to: 1) Encourage them to not take out any loans or...
iHeart Math Holiday Hop
I have the pleasure of linking up with several wonderful math bloggers for a month long holiday hop. We are excited about this collaboration because each day you can access a different blogger with great holiday tips and a special gift. Be sure to tune in everyday to...
Fly on Math Teacher’s Wall – Put the Value in Place Value
A group of math bloggers have gotten together to join forces in ‘squashing’ some math misconceptions. For the inaugural blog hop we are tackling the big idea of Place Value. So, read through my thoughts and then at the bottom is a link to another blogger...
Subitize while #TMWYK
I so wish I would have had my camera at the ready this morning at the breakfast table! I need to take Christopher Danielson’s advice and get Google Glass, but that’s a little out of my price range. So I’m going to recreate what my kids said using...
Children’s Mathematics – The Book That Changed My Teaching Forever
My journey to become a Recovering Traditionalist started with the book Children’s Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction by Thomas Carpenter et al. So, when I was invited to participate in the blog hop entitled “Math Books That Will Change Your...
K-2 PARCC Content Emphases and Frameworks
I have spent most of this week over in a school district near Portland, OR doing trainings for almost all of their Title 1 Kindergarten through 2nd grade teachers. One of the activities we did together was investigating the Content Emphases (download it at the bottom...
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