Choice Lit Topic: Choice Numeracy
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Making Meaning of Story Through Modeling
Pictures and manipulatives can hold an idea in place right in front of you so that you can think about it more deeply. —IG: @MixandMath When I saw this quote...
Let the Math Linger: Creating Spaces and Conditions for Students to Revisit Math Materials Over Time
“Hey Siri, add bananas to my grocery list." “Got it, bananas added to your grocery list.” “Hey Siri, remind me to get money for Ms. Christy tomorrow at 4 p.m.”...
Pattern Seeking and Visualizing Numbers Lesson Structure
“Some are triangular and some are circular!” “I see the four pattern like on dice, and if you go down diagonally, they all have the four pattern.” “I wonder why...
What Type of Mistake Was It?
If you’re in conversation with the self, you can be in conversation with the world. —Suleika Jaouad How can we help students reflect on their mistakes so that they can...
Leveling Up The Locker Problem
Let’s choose math tasks we put in front of our students with as much care and intentionality as we use to select the books we use for read aloud. —...
The Locker Problem: Choosing Tasks and Posing Questions That Elicit Core Mathematical Ideas
Worthwhile mathematics teaching is about helping students to use what they know to reason through problems, strengthening their minds as they grapple with and make sense of increasingly complex mathematics....
Setting Personal Goals for Math Independent Work
How do you take a practice that works so naturally in reading and apply it to mathematics? Does it work the same way? Does it have the same powerful effects?...
A Literacy Project Needed Math
I don’t know why I didn’t make time for a Mock Caldecott project earlier in my career. This past year was my second time using a text set of possible...
Developing Flexibility with Number Lines
The language we use with students can clarify meaning—or cause confusion. Imagine a second-grade classroom where students are learning to subtract. In an attempt to help students, a teacher tells...
Vertical Conversations to Create Coherence
In my shift from the world of elementary school to middle school, I’ve noticed that we talk about mathematics instruction in different ways. Initially, I believed that we shared an...
Delving Deeper Through Inquiry-Based Learning
One March 14, a day affectionately known by many math teachers as Pi Day, Brooke strode into the classroom and proudly announced, “I can name the first 100 digits of...
Purposeful Play
One of my favorite quotes comes from Math for Love’s Dan Finkel: “What books are to reading, play is to mathematics.” To develop a child’s reading habits, we know that...
Your Voice Matters
To honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., my class read the I Have a Dream speech along with Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop. The picture book version of...
Empowering Students Through Thinking Routines
A quote I return to time and time again comes from Dr. Seuss’ Hooray for Diffendoofer Day. In a motivational speech to her students as they prepare to take an...
Increasing Engagement During Online Practice Opportunities
Scanning the room as a fifth-grade class engages in an online practice tool, I see the whole range of student behaviors: Some students are practicing as the teacher intended, some...
Sparking Curiosity: Developing Ownership of Learning Through “What If” Questions
Playing a role across subject areas, inquiry is at the heart of discovery and learning. Whether it is drawing inferences from text, engaging in problem-based learning, or changing variables while...
Fostering Math Identities with Picture Books
As the new school year began, I started setting up my classroom and gathering books I might read while thinking about launching each of my workshops. There were books about...
From a Blank Canvas to a Community Space
For my first teaching job, I was hired three days before the beginning of school. With boundless enthusiasm, I eagerly purchased decorations at the local teacher store and spent the...
Student-Generated Questions to Promote Problem Solving and Modeling with Mathematics
How many gumballs could fill our classroom? When will you be 1 billion seconds old? How many books will you read in your lifetime? Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist...
Choral Counting Routine
“One, two, dee, door, dive, dix, de-veeen, eight, nine, ten,” my son Brooks says, counting his grapes. I never realized seven was the only two-syllable number in one to 10...
Building Independence in Problem Solving
It is the third day of school, and Mrs. Gonzalez is introducing a task called Sealed Solution to her students. There are 10 cards, each with a number 0–9. The...
