"Show your work." Have you ever tried to ask a group of math teachers what this actually looks like? Answers can vary, but in general, even the teachers who say this often have a hard time describing...
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Students are taught multiple models in mathematics. This gives them multiple opportunities to understand an idea, strengthens and deepens connections to the material, and provides multiple tools for...
Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide in Word Problems? Beyond Key Words
(Click aqui para leer este articulo en español.) Word problems are the bane of math students' existence. Sometimes we could easily solve the exact same problem if it came up in real life but...
https://twitter.com/Cukalu/status/1550529549007560707 Arrays are introduced early in the elementary curriculum. As a bridge from counting to skip counting, to multiplication, and eventually the...
Algebra tiles can be difficult to figure out at first. However, once you grasp the basic ideas, algebra tiles are a fantastic tool to help many students understand where algebra processes come from,...