Updating Old Questions: Addition With Missing Pieces How can I go beyond asking 20 variations of 622 + 77 = ___?
Encourage Curiosity With Calculators It's easy to fall in love with chasing the newest technology to use in the classroom. But sometimes, the perfect tool is a plain old calculator. We'll be using this tool to develop curiosity about math.
The Surprises Within a Triangle’s Angles Discovering what is interesting and unexpected about a triangle's angles. What twists have I unintentionally spoiled for my students over the years?
Updating Old Questions: A math question that’s TOO high level?! What happens when we ask a math level that scares off 83% of our students? Don't lower the ceiling! Lower the floor through scaffolding.
Math Project: Disneyland Parking Structure Let's develop a math project to challenge students who have demonstrated a mastery of multiplication and are ready to explore its applications. We'll count the parking spaces in the Disneyland parking structure!
Making Awful Graphs Sometimes we can learn a lot by doing something the wrong way. Here are six ways your students can purposefully design awful, misleading graphs.
Make A *Better* Calendar! The calendar is a source of fantastic factoring problems with many social studies add-ons. Why 12 months? Why 30 (or 31 or 28) days? Why are weeks 7 days long? Why don't they fit into the months (or the year!)? Why did we do this to ourselves!?
Healthy Donuts!? Framing a Math Project with a Big Idea Instead of jumping straight to calculations, what if we framed this math concept with a big idea?
Universal Themes in Math? With Fractions!? What if we used a universal theme to guide our study of fractions? These very big ideas get students thinking about fractions in a new way.
