Perseverance in Real Life and in Math: What My Students Taught Me
Matt Every Monday, we start class with a short reflection designed to build not only stronger mathematical habits, but stronger humans. On the…
Teaching Math
Finding Joy in Math: A Teacher’s Perspective
When I tell people that joy is at the heart of my math classroom, they sometimes give me a puzzled look. Math…
Do Animal Emoji’s Help More Kids Learn More Math?
In my never ending quest to create a better math program that helps more kids learn more math I created the Animal…
Team Building Tuesday: Getting Started
(5-min Non-curricular tasks that motivate, activate and engage Math students) If you want to read the research on why these are effective…
Why Math?
According to Wikipedia, “Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the…
Is “Building Thinking Classrooms” Grouping right???
As a math teacher I am constantly reevaluating my program because even if we think everything is perfect our group of kids…
Introducing Students to the Three Read
I developed the three read (self) assessment system prior to COVID and as great as it turned out to be at helping…
Low Floor High Ceiling High Cognitive Demand Activities
How to make every activity a low floor high ceiling high cognitive demand activity
It’s All About the Dog
Meet Rufus, a super light stuffed dog that we use to decide who reads or answers a question next. How does an…
The Art of Teaching
I talk and think a lot about our art. As a scientist I also think and write a lot about data and…