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Sharing successes and challenges through teaching while becoming a (hopefully) published author.
Activities for September (and a new math game)
Looking for ideas to start the year? Let me help! This post provides links to ideas I shared last year to help start your year. It includes community building activities and books that work well! I have also included how to play a game I ALWAYS teach in September that is loved—The Nasty Place Value Game!
Social Justice Symposium: The Stations and Logistics (Ideas to share your own learning!)
The Social Justice Symposium is done and I am exhausted! In this post I run down some of the logistics running a day of sharing learning with the school community. The learning was deep and it represented many different learning opportunities. I am so grateful for my class and all of the people who helped us succeed.
Math Games: Multiples and Factors (And some math menus for fun)
This post explains two new math games about factoring and multiples as well as three math menus to help with formative assessment. Handouts are included to help you use this in your classroom easily. This is a VERY short post for me that was a request from one of my colleagues.
Graceful Tree Problems and Assessment: My 1st In Person Pro-D in TWO Years
Feeling grateful for in person pro-d! This post shares an easy number sense routine and non curricular task you can do in your class. Routine: What is the answer? Task: The Graceful Tree Conjecture. I am also working on how to infuse ideas from Building a Thinking Classroom in Mathematics as well.
A Dragon, a Goat, and Lettuce need to cross a river: Non Curricular Math Tasks
I am excited to build a thinking classroom in mathematics once again this year by implementing ideas from Peter Liljedahl’s book. This post also provides a sample non curricular task that you can download and use! Have fun playing with math!
A Case for Real Data: Where Math, Language Arts, and Science Collide
Use real data in your class to create cross curricular hands on lessons with high engagement! This post explores two activities that link science, language arts, and math that I have done in my classroom in the last two weeks as a way to inspire YOU to collect your own data with kids!
Reader Request: Class Survey + Graphing = Understanding Built With Your Class (Cross Curricular Activity)
Turning a class survey into deep understanding. This hands-on cross-curricular activity can help you learn about your class and make powerful class goals.
Refugee Crisis + Math Lesson = Compassion and Understanding
This outlines a cross curricular refugee crisis math/social studies lesson I did today. It includes graphing, counting collections, and the refugee crisis. It is hands-on and each class I worked with loved it. It is our job to help kids unpack and make sense of hard topics.