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Strategy Math Games with a Blank Hundred Chart
Fact: Kids love playing strategy math games, and when you introduce a twist of strategy, you add a problem-solving...
Rethinking the Hundred Chart
If you are reading this post, you have probably used a hundred chart or a 120 chart in your classroom. The patterns...
Would You Rather…
Last week I wrote about making math accessible to teachers, and I featured a routine called Would You Rather Math. The...
Making Math Accessible…for Teachers
I am just back from the NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition in sunny San Diego, and what a phenomenal experience it...
Turn Worksheets into Workstations
I understand the allure of worksheets. Really I do. Students need practice with new concepts, and worksheets provide...
De-emphasizing Speed in Math
I recently spoke to the mother of a 1st-grade student who told her mom that she was bad at math because everyone in...
Chapter 5, Exit Tasks
"My tickets were trivial--just quick, mostly routine math computation. Now, my tasks focus on problem solving and...
Chapter 4, Hinge Questions
"...the success of a lesson actually hinges on responses to such questions as an indication of whether students...
Chapter 3, Show Me
"Show Me is interactive in that its use can provide an indication as to the extent to which what has been taught has...
Making Sense of Rounding
Have you ever thought that maybe people who think they are not good at math really have just never been taught math in...
