As a math teacher, you spend a lot of time showing students facts, logic, and step by step proofs. This puts you in an excellent position to prank your students on April Fools' Day.
What makes Pi Day even more fun? Daylight Saving Time! Why not check your students' understanding of this strange, coordinated leap forward. Here are some resources for your class to help kids make sense of Daylight Saving Time.
How do you want your students to describe equivalent fractions? By rote definition memorized from the textbook? Nope! Wouldn't it be great if they used a combination of analogies, examples and counterexamples, as well as everyday language referencing various ways to model equivalence and sprinkled with academic vocabulary?
What makes understanding equivalent fractions such a big deal? ... Continue Reading
Part of 'doing' school in the United States is responding to display questions. These are questions teachers ask to give students a chance to demonstrate their understanding, their frame of mind, their active participation.
Starting with unit fractions or proper fractions in the simplest form, show your students how to multiply those numbers by one to make a row of equivalent fractions.
Search for metaphors and analogies to help students create a ... Continue Reading
Valentine's Day has always been one of my favorite celebrations. Now I have another reason to enjoy Valentine's Day ~ it is easy to find math projects that combine valentines and ~ solving puzzles thinking about what equals what substitution
The More; the Better When it Comes to Modeling ... Continue Reading
Having a nuanced understanding of the academic words being used in class is one of the best ways to build understanding of the concepts represented by that word. Students should have many encounters with the target vocabulary. They should hear it spoken, see it written, and have risk-free opportunities to practice saying it.
