Let's face it. Sometimes students look at you while your teaching and you can read their minds. "Why in the world are we doing this?" And in their defense...when they are filling out worksheets or pages of a math workbook, it's easy to lose the "real world" in the math and focus instead on the answers in the boxes. Whenever humanly possible, I try to make math meaningful to my ... Read the Post
Providing Quality Math Problem Solving Experiences
A few challenges ago, I talked pretty extensively about problem solving as it related to word problems with tips and suggestions and food for thought. Today I want to talk about problem solving "experiences" that are NOT word problems so that we can adjust our thinking and plan for meaningful math instruction. So here we go...some ideas to get you thinking about problem solving! Presenting ... Read the Post
Word Problems and Problem-Solving
Here we go! On to challenge 3 with a focus on word problems and problem-solving. If you are just joining us, I have linked to all the other posts related to this summer math challenge at the bottom so check them all out1 Today's challenge is all about reflecting on problem-solving--how we teach it AND how we make it accessible to students. I am hoping something in this post resonates with ... Read the Post
Teaching Comparison Problems
It's my day to blog over at Upper Elementary Snapshots! Check out today's post all about teaching COMPARISON PROBLEMS...and how important it is to help students really dig deeply into their problem solving. I hope you get some helpful tips! Whether you call them comparison problems, tape diagrams, or strip diagrams--these problems can really helps students "make sense" of ... Read the Post
10 Tips for test prep–without sacrificing teaching time
It's coming for many of our upper elementary teachers and students. They have thought about it. Worried about it. The. Test. This is something that I have thought about a great deal. I hear so many stories about teachers, schools and districts who set aside real teaching and learning to prepare for tests that are simply supposed to be a "dipstick" to measure the state ... Read the Post
Differentiated Problem Solving: A New Approach
I know so many of you have been looking for a way to build deep math thinking with your intermediate students--I know this because I get questions about it all the time! You want your students to be challenged in new and interesting ways—and be easily able to differentiate so that ALL your students can benefit, right? Here's the problem...what's challenging for some is way too ... Read the Post
Project Based Learning Math Tasks: The Benefits of the Challenge
So many times I am asked questions about why many students seem so disengaged in math. I ask these teachers to flip through their resources and see how many of them truly help students see the real life application of math--and solve rigorous, engaging problems that students can relate to. PBL (project based learning) can help make the connections between the math skills and the real world, and ... Read the Post
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