First, I have a quiz for you. If you speak and write Hindi, you can skip this part! For everyone else, look at the symbols below. Can you tell which…
As you’re planning for the new school year (or maybe you’re one of the lucky ones still enjoying summer!), you’re probably thinking about how you’ll introduce math journals. One of…
A daily number sense routine is one of the simplest ways to strengthen students’ understanding of numbers. Spending just a few minutes each day exploring a single number helps students…
One of the most important things we do at the beginning of the school year is establish the expectation that students will communicate their mathematical thinking. Learning mathematics is a…
“Why is it that as a society we’re willing to freely admit that we’re not competent mathematicians but would disguise any struggle we had with being literate? What if we…
Look at the following multi-digit multiplication problems and see if you can tell why each one produced the wrong answer. I’ll wait… Okay, so did you figure it out? This…
We all know that solving word problems can be a challenge for students of all ages, and teachers are always looking for ways to help them be more successful. One…
Beginning as early as 1st grade, students should have experience solving addition and subtraction problems with the unknown in any position. Traditionally, we have tended to focus on result unknown…
A Frayer Model is a graphical organizer used to define and understand a concept by examining its definition, characteristics, examples, and non-examples. Frayer Models are typically used for vocabulary. but…
