An Often Unused Way to Collaborate Within Your School: Vertical PD Meetings
I got an email a while back from a principal who was concerned about ways to help her staff collaborate. Part of her email said, “As a small school, we only have one teacher per grade level. And thus it can be difficult to have authentic collaboration with our...
Adapting Math Resources to Encourage Student Thinking
As you start to make a change in your teaching to one that allows more student thinking, you quickly notice that your math resources don’t really change with you, and most people don’t have the time or money to get new math materials. I’m Christina...
Allowing Student Thinking by Changing The Way We Grade
Each month I address a hot topic inside the free Build Math Minds Facebook group. For those of you not in the group, or maybe you missed it, I thought I’d share it here as well. In the training, I discussed Allowing Student Thinking in Math by Changing the Way We...
Evaluating Math Manipulatives
I got a message the other day asking me my thoughts on the math manipulative called Numicon. Now, I’ve never actually used that particular math manipulative, but it got me thinking about what I would look at while I was using it to decide if I thought it was a...
Evaluating Elementary Math Resources
I get asked all the time about my thoughts about a certain math resource or textbook. Now, I don’t have the time to look at, nonetheless use, every textbook or resource that’s out there. So instead of telling you what I think about certain resources, I...
My Favorite Resources for Math Fact Fluency
The root of helping kids develop math fact fluency is through the connections and relationships of numbers that we can help them develop. The more connections and relationships they develop, the more fluent they will become. But most resources that you can find out...
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