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Sunday, May 7, 2017
How To Talk To Your Principal About Math
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It's that time of year again when teachers and principals are meeting to have conversations about their evaluations . Most teache...
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
Are 3rd Graders Too Young for Proportional Reasoning?
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Getting third graders to think proportionally is a fantastic way to encourage modeling, and to “prime the pump” for ...
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Saturday, October 22, 2016
Calling All 5th Graders!
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Get Ready to Problem-Solve One of my favorite strategies I use when problem-solving is to work backwards. So when I think of a problem ...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016
Should I Go All the Way with Multiplication Facts?
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I've been getting a lot of questions from 3rd grade teachers whether they should teach multiplication facts through 9 (Common Core S...
Friday, September 2, 2016
Creating an Anxiety-Free Math Classroom
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One of my very first math lesson is about making mistakes . I tell my students that I LOVE math mistakes because it is the best way to star...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
How I'm getting 3rd Graders ready for Performance Tasks
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Last year I began seriously looking at released items from Smarter Balanced , especially the performance tasks. "Wow!" I said...
Friday, January 2, 2015
The Best Place Value Experience for 2nd Graders!
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2nd graders need lots of experience decomposing numbers as they work with place value concepts. I often see these guys carefully pulling num...
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