How are you inviting your students into the learning for each activity? each lesson? each unit? What profound ideas to consider, and that invitation is important for all learners to receive, every day. My favorite ways to engage my mathematicians in the content play directly into the...
4 Comments - no search term matches found in comments.
Why Desmos? My classroom is a noisy one - full of discussions, debates, and even arguments. This is not how it always was. When I first started teaching, my desks were lined up in rows and students worked quietly on problems after being shown a lesson on the board. We would go over the...
1 Comment - no search term matches found in comments.
In my last post , I ended with a proposition made by John Van de Walle: “ The traditional whole-number algorithms for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division should no longer be taught in schools.” Instead, he argued that alternative and/or invented strategies should be...
I advocate for more equitable and just classrooms, schools, and schooling. This work must be addressed at multiple levels of the educational system (e.g., see Aguirre, Mayfield-Ingram, & Martin, 2013, Wager and Stinson, 2012), but in all of the work that I do I always try to highlight...
2 Comments - no search term matches found in comments.
1906 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191-1502
(800) 235-7566 or (703) 620-9840
FAX: (703) 476-2970
nctm@nctm.org