Testimonials

Here’s what your fellow educators have said about our books and workshops:

TESTIMONIALS FROM TEACHERS

“Brad and Bill’s math activities are the best I’ve seen in 30 years of teaching middle school! These activities are engaging and meaningful but simple to use. They are invaluable in infusing algebraic concepts and processes into lower grades in preparing all students for the demands of formal algebra. Many other math teachers at my school site are finding them equally useful.”

– Wayne Dequer, 7th grade math teacher, Arcadia, CA
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“Excellent…relevant…useful…practical…engaging.”

– Tizoc Tirado, kindergarten teacher
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“It’s great to go back to work with actual usable lessons!”

– Peggy Norton, 7th-12th grade teacher
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“A fun and innovative way to teach math. I have used Brad and Bill’s activities with middle school and high school students with great success. I have also presented them to teachers in workshops and in an algebra standards course at the college level as an excellent way to actively involve students in learning important algebra concepts.”

– Terry L. Nevin, high school algebra teacher
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“Your methods should be taught to all math teachers and in all math books!! What a wonderful way to teach outside the box.”

“This is a way to really get kids and adults excited about math. No more bored students!!!”

– Nancy Heim, Adult Education, Dana Point, CA
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“Absolutely engaging. I can teach algebra to second graders!”

– Lisa Fellers, teacher
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“The game activities are so open-ended. They can work at many grade levels.”

– Karyn Mazo, K-8 teacher
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“Absolutely loved the step-by-step process of leading the students to complex algebraic processes while providing a deep understanding for the students at every step.”

– Kathy Meiser, 4th grade/gifted and talented teacher
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“If we want students to engage in mathematics, we need to have engaging, rigorous curriculum to share with them. These units do that better than anything else I have ever used. The activities can be modified to use at many grade levels to introduce or review important mathematical concepts. Students love the activities, and because of the connections to the world outside of school, parents are impressed with what their students are learning to do.”

– Judy Ferrarri, 4th/5th grade teacher, Springfield, OR
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“You really addressed the real-life classroom and problems with teaching fractions, decimals, and percents.”

– Jacquelyn Jacobs, middle school teacher
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“Even though I have a degree in math and have been teaching 16 years, I learned new things.”

– Linda Parry, 7th and 8th grade teacher
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“Very helpful for my at-risk kids.”

– Susan Waller, 9th grade teacher
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“The content was great! Very captivating and energetic. The whole staff was very involved with the activities.”

– Michele Wehrhan, Title 1 teacher
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“As a special education teacher, this is the first time I’ve taken a workshop that has ideas that I really feel can help resource students enjoy and be successful at math.”

– Lynn Ohren, Resource special education teacher
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“This workshop addressed differentiation for GATE and RSP in the same setting. Thank you for such a wonderful opportunity to learn great activities.”

– Deborah White, teacher
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“The most informational workshop I have ever attended. This is a workshop everyone should attend. There is information available for use in any grade or classroom.”

– Melba VanPelt, RSP special education teacher

TESTIMONIALS FROM ADMINISTRATORS

“Teacher To Teacher Press materials and program workshops have provided Orange County teachers with a rich and important set of resources, models, and instructional tools in mathematics. These resources have been successfully applied and used to boost teachers’ and students’ understanding of mathematics. The use of these materials, coupled with our ongoing staff development program, has positively impacted student learning. The Teacher to Teacher Press materials and presenters are both adept and talented in their approach, understanding, and use of modeling to facilitate concept development. These program materials continue to provide a rich resource of ideas and strategies for the classroom teacher.”

Ed Rodevich
Coordinator, Math/Science
Orange County Department of Education
Costa Mesa, California

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“I am a mathematics consultant with the Los Angeles County Office of Education. We have had Brad Fulton present numerous times to many elementary, middle, and high school teachers who provide mathematics instruction in Los Angeles County. Brad has presented workshops in all the strands, and on a regular weekday he commands an audience close to 200 participants. Many of them are second or third time attendees who want more of his strategies to make math accessible.

These strategies are taken from the eight books written by Brad and his partner, Bill Lombard, and published by Teacher to Teacher Press. From their partnership, innovative activities have been developed and extended into week-long explorations to give students an opportunity to deepen their mathematics. At the same time, teachers work on these activities to increase their own mathematics content knowledge at Brad and Bill’s workshops. Used with research-based lesson plans, these strategies support the California Mathematics Content Standards and help to strengthen conceptual understanding and mathematical reasoning while increasing students’ motivation. Brad Fulton and Bill Lombard have provided materials and methodologies, and have helped both teachers and students in Los Angeles County strengthen and enjoy their mathematics learning.”

Yuki Mio
Mathematics Consultant
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Downey, California