As my team engages the topic of student choice in our research, I have noticed an added benefit to making room for choices in the classroom that I did not…
Mathematical Thinking vs. the Right Answer
One of the things that I try to impress upon my students is that being “good” at math is really about the thinking skills you use to solve problems, versus…
Math is like…
The main goal of my research team this year is to encourage students to redefine who they are as mathematicians in order to increase their enjoyment while doing mathematics. Enjoyment,…
The Power of Choice
Do you have a math learning target that you want to jazz up a bit to increase student engagement, joy and wonderment of a standard? Do you have a lesson…
Deepening Conceptual Understanding Using Sentence Frames
When are sentence frames helpful? What is the purpose of sentence frames? In this post, I share how sentence frames can be used to help students catch mistakes in their…
Agree to Disagree
Creating a classroom environment where students publicly disagree with one another is often a challenging endeavor. During this class, my class of Integrated Math 1 students were finding the rate…
Math in Real Life: Utilizing Industry Professionals in Our Classrooms
“When are we ever going to use this in real life?” This question is a great indicator of a lack of joy and engagement in a classroom, and I am…
M&M’s: Math and Memes
Who doesn’t love a good meme? When reviewing for my students’ unit test, I wanted to add some spice into the review instead of the regular practice problems and I’m…
Group Quizzes and Self-Grading
One of the things I am focusing on this year is building the capacity of students to self-assess accurately and reflect on their progress and learning. I am using group…
Team Building Tuesday
Introduction Team Building Tuesday basically consists of an activity that takes place during the first 5 to 10 minutes of class every Tuesday. Every activity is designed to help students…