This is the scene that plays out all too frequently in my house at homework time. Books, notebooks, and worksheets are spread all over the dining room table. My seventh-grade daughter is hunched over another math worksheet, pencil in hand, frustration building with each problem. Read more ...
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After teaching the Constant Difference strategy for subtraction to at least six different groups of teachers and students in third and fourth grade over the past month, I think I finally hit on a winning tool: the Number Line app. Here's what I did. First, I selected a plain number line, no ticks. Read more...
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The other day I received this question from a fifth grade teacher, referring to a challenge problem in the Bridges Student Book: "I would say this is too close to call. Anything other than wading knee deep into the computation will simply yield a guess, not a prediction. What do you think?" Read more ...
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Here's what I learned when a colleague video-recorded my class recently: we teachers miss a lot! In the video I could see myself responding in great detail to one group's work, helping them see what they'd accomplished and leading them on to the next steps. Read more...
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