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.

Monday, August 8, 2016. This has been a dream of mine for the past three years, so I was excited to finally be allowed to submit an application. The application questions really got me thinking. Yes, calculus allows students to navigate both abstract and applied mathematics. If done right, it .

First Day of School Activities. The first day of school is just around the corner. Not just any activity will do since you are just getting to know each other. I like to let students sit in groups on the first day. I try to save the syllabus for later in the week. I also liked the respon.

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Math, PrBL, and SBG. To begin, my school is very protocol-driven. We use many of the protocols from the National School Reform Faculty. Among others, along with protocols we create, tune, and share amongst ourselves. I use all kinds of protocols in class, including to run discussions.

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Great makerspace activities students are grounded in a design cycle. Moments they can inspire in students.

As a K-12 Math Consultant, this site is where I post ideas to support the teaching of mathematics. About this Site and Elaine Watson Mathematics Consulting. Fawn Nguyen, in her blog Finding Ways. The problem makes clear the importance of using units as tools for understanding. Thanks, Fawn and Don.

I aim to blog about my interactions with math, logic, life, teaching, and the web they spin together. My favorite divisibility rule is that of three. Saturday, August 15, 2015. At some point, either before lunch or in the afternoon, I tossed up this Estimation 180. How long to cook the bacon, starting with a cold skillet? How hot is the flame? .