I love volunteering with math groups at our neighborhood elementary school. One of the groups I work with right now is a group of second graders who need math challenges that can recapture their...
Category: K-8 Math for Parents
The distributive property is a common theme throughout math learning. While it has long held precedence in algebra as the way to multiply expressions, it's now being taught in the early days of...
Tonight our school district sponsored a webinar for parents about mathematical mindsets. The main speaker was Jo Boaler, from Stanford University, who is arguably most famous for establishing the...
¿Sumar, restar, multiplicar y dividir en problemas verbales? Más allá de palabras claves
(Click here to read this post in English.) Los problemas de palabras son la pesadilla de la existencia de los estudiantes de matemáticas. A veces podríamos resolver fácilmente exactamente...
There are array types appropriate for all stages of math learning from counting through mid-level algebra. They help bridge new ideas to old, give students tools to explore and dive deeply into...
We can add numbers -- even large numbers -- without carrying. Carrying is really just a shorthand notation for thinking of 10 units in one place value as 1 unit in the next place value. Thus, it's...