A blog for sharing my math interests on the web, to post new materials for elementary, secondary and teacher ed, and vent mathematical steam when needed. Thanks for visiting! Tuesday, March 13, 2018. I keep a close watch on this number line. I keep my eyes wide open for the sign. Making sense, connections all the time. For number sense, I walk the line. At Math In Action two weeks ago, I presented on number talks in the middle grades. As a text, mo.

And I started with the 100s chart. Another amazing characteristic of first graders is that once you explore one avenue of a problem, their.

MATH and SCIENCE with my KIDS. Math, nature, and kids collide. Their tattered appearance speaks of the heavy use that the local ecology has made of them. I think of dyslexia as a different br.

Friday, August 14, 2015. As a warm-up, the first grade played tic-tac-toe. In both older grades, we played the 24 game. If no one else .

Monday, 10 August 2015. Can you think of a way to show how that can be true? Summer holidays. At a café now, so I can blog, but then back to limited quota of 4G. By Susan Jo Russell, Deborah Schifter and Virginia Bastable a bit more slowly than before.

Life brings you to unexpected places. Today I flew from my home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to my hometown in Maplewood, New Jersey. Naturally, I took Daphne. Daphne has only flown once, three years ago when I took her home from her program. In the end, Daphne did great. She was polite and non-intrusive and she won over all of the passengers that noticed .

Hands-on physics for kids of all ages. Twins Paradox and Special Relativity. This post is a bit off topic to my blog, but there are some things in popular science that really bother me. One of the groups that I follow on Facebook posted a clip on Twins Paradox in Special Relativity.