My First 3 Act Math Tasks
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...Quick Differentiated Math Fact Assessment
Right now we are in the midst of the state assessments, yet as I was helping my Kindergarten son get checked into his classroom I was reminded that the assessments teachers do to inform instruction can be quick and easily differentiated. His teacher decided to put a...‘School Math’ disconnects us from ‘Real Math’
Why is it that kids go from seeing math every where in their real life to being disconnected from math and even hating it? Why is it that early learners are so inquisitive and mathematics comes naturally to them but yet by the time they are in 1st grade (maybe even...
Easter Egg Math Activities
I am a firm believer in doing math activities that make kids feel like they aren’t doing math at all. So, seeing all the cute ways teachers are using easter eggs to help kids with literacy and math got me inspired to create some math eggs of my own for my...
Make Math Informal and Connected
Tonight I was sitting down with my 6 year old son doing his math homework. One of the last problems was 38 < ___ and ___< 60. At first he put 38 < 39 and then he thought for a moment and said, “Can it be ANY number that is bigger than...
Traditional Algorithms SUCK!!!
Now, let me be clear…I am in no means in love with Common Core. There are a few issues that I see in the math content standards, there are issues with the implementation piece that has been put upon teachers’ shoulders, and there are issues with the...
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