My team has been using Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms in our math classrooms this school year. So far I am very happy with the results. Student engagement when standing…
Math Goes Vertical
For several years now, I have allowed my collaborative teams to use dry erase markers on their tables while problem solving together in the classroom. Students have loved this! This…
Passion Project: Project Geometry
Passion Project: Project Geometry by Karen Kurcz Imagine a twenty-year dream come true. This year, it happened for me. This year was the ‘maiden voyage’ of my newly-adopted senior math…
A Grading Experiment
Every year I find myself reimagining several of my classroom norms and policies in search of systems that will work best for my students and their learning. My assessment policy,…
Why Am I Grading This?
At the beginning of this year I found I was struggling with grading assignments. I had students upload images of their work to Google Classroom so that I could record…
Second Chances on Assessments
Do you have students that are struggling with assessments and feeling defeated afterwards? In a perfect setting, I would be able to choose not to give my students traditional assessments….
How Non-Curricular Tasks are Changing My Classroom
For our research project this year, our TRC team has gone “all in” on Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms. We have chosen some innovations to focus on such as visible…
Space Talk ~ No limits
As a teacher, I am constantly encouraging my students to find their passion and reach for the stars. I believe they will grow up and become productive citizens in the…
Teaching Math by Modeling Perseverance: How Do You Try New Things?
As math educators, we teach students the skills of grit, perseverance, and trial-and-error through mathematics; but how often do we push our own growth in those same ways? Once we…
Stand Up!
Math is a hard subject for a majority of my students. It can be a scary subject and the math classroom can be an even scarier place for students. My…