Common Core Math Practices
MAT-930 Putting Common Core Math into Practice will help you develop mathematically proficient students who reason, apply mathematics to problems, and communicate precisely about their thinking.
View ArticleWhy We Stall with Standards for Math Practice
Consider this scenario: I arrive at school Monday morning and begin to plan a lesson on adding integers. I need to start incorporating mathematical practices into my lessons, so I choose S.M.P. 3,...
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What does it take to graph a line?
I think it’s fairly well established that teachers need to make sure students are really good at graphing a single line before they are expected to look at several lines. We start with fastballs before...
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Day 23 of 24
That was one week ago. Day 23 of PD as part of a three-year CaMSP grant funded by the CA Department of Education. Around 100 teachers from the Central Valley signed up in 2010, and a portion of these...
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Read [and do some math] Across America
I was recently invited to be a guest reader at a local elementary school’s Day of the Reader celebration. The reading coordinator assigned me to three sixth grade classrooms. It’s always fun to...
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On Productive Surprise
I recently tweeted that a certain video should see the light of day again soon. This video will have new life in an exp functions unit. "The Ring of Truth: Atoms" and chef Kin Jing Mark: bit.ly/12h19pV...
View ArticleSupporting Common Core Math Teachers
The California Draft Mathematics Framework has been open for public review and comments during the month of April. This draft document is a huge step in the right direction for California, mainly...
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Mathematics that Matters
Recently I participated in City Summit 2013, a local community-based effort to connect people and their city in new ways, and in the process, foster a sort of re-imagining of what communities might...
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Pentominoes, Part 1 of 2
I started this lesson by telling kids they would be working together to create a new game. I asked them if they’d ever played TETRIS. The response was mixed. I don’t know when this game hit its peak,...
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Pentominoes, Part 2 of 2
In the first lesson, students were invited to create a new game based on the four-square pieces used in TETRIS. Using five identical squares, groups explored possible arrangements and clarified...
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