NUMBER BONDS – CRITICAL CONNECTIONS AND A STUDENT INTRODUCTION
I was asked to teach a demonstration lesson for a handful of teachers last November. It was a class of first-graders, and they had already
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STUDENT JOURNAL EXAMPLES
Hello Teachers! We often get requests from teachers during our workshops to see examples of student journal entries at the various grade levels. We put
HOW MUCH HOMEWORK? USING “TAKE & PLAY” TO CONNECT LITERATURE AND MATH IN THE EARLY GRADES
What’s the most recent and common question from parents & teachers of K-2 age students that I get when giving my Teaching Math using Children’s
Bar Modeling – Introduction, History, and Theoretical Underpinnings
What Are Bar Models? Strip Diagrams, Tape Diagrams, Tape Models and others, are all names for the same thing – Bar Models. But as a
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION VS. INQUIRY BASED – WHICH IS THE BETTER APPROACH?
There is no shortage of disputes in mathematics education. Lively discussions and arguments over what works with our students and what doesn’t is the backbone
ADDING MEANING TO WORD PROBLEMS
The focus of this article in the November 2021 issue of Mathematics Teacher, Melissa Gallagher, Laura Ellis, and Travis Weiland show how teachers can make boring word problems into meaningful mathematical experiences for their students.