Professional development among colleagues who are also friends. And write your own blog. Add yourself to the directory. If you care about math education and.

Teaching to the Beat of a Different Drummer. My place to think about education and connect with like-minded folks. This has been a busy week, but I can finally sit down to write about day 2 of our Math Rocks class. One thing that has kept me busy is reading and responding to all of the blog posts that our group has generated this week.

In doing so my students began to develop spatial sense, vocabulary and the ability to explain and justify their thinking and then were able to visualize and conceptualize more complex mathematical ideas. Twitter And The Newbie After One Year. Over the course of the year we have grown to nearly 900 followers.

A resource for teachers and parents about the latest in math teaching research and strategies. I will share lesson ideas, book reviews, and research about how children best learn math. Another Round of Number Talks. I planned for a dot number talk as well, just in case we had extra time. We only got to the number sentence, but they were able to share great strategies! I already used the 9! It was interesting that nobody used the firs.

All rolled together in one simple, imperfect package. So, we started counting. But we started finding that in order to keep track of t.

My goals for this year teaching math is to successfully implement all that I have learned as a 5th grade teacher. My campus uses the Share and Compare framework and I see my kids grow immensely from it. I have grown SO much as a teacher over the last 6 years at Sommer Elementary and want to see how I can incorporate all my new knowledge into this new grade level. I am excited for this year and what it has in store! July 27, 2015.

Learning How To Teach More Effectively. I was noticing my students were having difficulty with comparing two digit numbers, even after we have been counting backwards and forth since the beginning of the school year.

Please fill out the parent contact form and submit it. In our first session, we told to pick a word to describe our focus for our math instruction and learning this year.

I have been honored to be included in the Math Rocks cohort this year. My name is Shelly Craig .