Monday, March 24, 2014. I hear this at least once a week. Our XYZ students struggle because so many come from broken homes. In the United States, when we think of family, we think of a father, a mother, and 2. Shift your lens for a moment. Imagine we valued an expanded view of family.

Rough-Draft Talk in Front of Hundreds of Math Teachers. Bull; March 9, 2018. I was on a raised platform with seven middle school students to my left and six to my right and several hundred math teachers surrounding us on all sides. But what kind of math should we.

On Wednesday, 7 February 2018. We did some practice test questions. In our faculty meeting this morning. On Friday, 19 January 2018. We should pay them more.

Trying to wrap my arms around the whole K-12 math curriculum so I can help students at all levels. I have been itching to try an Open Middle. As a tutor, I am always looking for ways to enrich and deepen the understanding of the students I work with, as opposed to just band-aiding their current math struggles. I finally got my chance last week. Draw three rectangles with a perimeter of 20 units. 8220;Oh, I get it! At which point h.

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

A journal about learning and teaching math. Asymp; Leave a comment. I had an encounter with said Paradox the other day in one of my classes. In fact, helping my students develop a particular set of thoughts about and attitudes towards math knowledge and learning .

And learning a bit about my own learning in the process. Below is the text of my talk and the accompanying slide deck. Enjoy! Ignite Talk Slide Deck. I want to do PrBL, but where do I start? May 1.

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.

Giving middle school kids a powerful math experience. What is holding you back from truly raising up the kids in your classroom this year? Becoming a better teacher.