Building Mathematical Skills on a Foundation of Understanding

The Amoeba Principle of Learning and Teaching

Posted by on Feb 29, 2012 in Pedagogy | 0 comments

I have had the advantage over the last fifteen years of working at a small K-8 school. My current site is so small that I am the eighth...

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Number Sense Components Part 1-Simple Strategies

Posted by on Feb 20, 2012 in Pedagogy, Web Resource | 0 comments

The development of number sense is crucial to success in mathematics as well as in our students’ lives beyond school. Though number...

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Guess and Check Intro Problem Solving

Posted by on Feb 16, 2012 in Featured, Pedagogy, Videos | 0 comments

Here’s the first of a series of videos on Guess and Check Problem Solving using the Horses, Pigs, and Cows activity as an...

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Palm Springs 2011 = California Math Council-Southern Section Conference

Posted by on Nov 7, 2011 in Activities, Pedagogy | 1 comment

Brad and I just finished delivering two sessions each at this year’s CMC-S conference in Palm Springs. It’s always a pleasure...

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The Voice of Math

Posted by on Dec 22, 2010 in Pedagogy | 4 comments

On any given day in France, you can walk into a specific classroom and know that every other similar grade classroom in the entire nation...

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