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APRIL 2016


        
  
 
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 ... 
  
 
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... 
  
 
Predictions & Estimates
By Martha Ruttle

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 ... 
  
 
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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