Sunday, August 31, 2014

Making Sense Out of Multiplication...

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It seems as though the longer I teach, the more it seems that students just really have difficulty using the multiplication algorithm. When ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

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Applying Plotting Ordered Pairs: Mathica Monster Activity Mathica Monster I was trying to figure out how to make an engaging lesson t...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

Reflecting Ordered Pairs Across the Axes: A Hands On Activity Using Mirrors

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It has been a while since I have written a blog entry. (Snow days and state testing has backed a lot of my lesson planning up). I am very ex...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Teaching the Concept of Dividing Fractions to Middle Schoolers Can Be Done Successfully!

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At the end of a few beautiful and restful snow days, I am getting ready to go back to work today. (It has always been a well known fact that...
Monday, December 23, 2013

A Common Core Conceptual Approach to Explaining the Distributive Property

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Hello. It has been a while since I have blogged, but I had to inform you about a great way for students to discover the distributive proper...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Today I Attended an Inspirational Teacher's Workshop with Dan Meyer

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I know, a workshop on a Saturday that I did not even get paid for... crazy right? In my 10 years of teaching this was probably one of the be...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Interactive Lesson on Relating Ratios to their Proportionate and Equivalent Forms

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This lesson worked really well last week for all levels of classes because it scaffolded the thought process needed to find equivalent ratio...