Student learning is no accident!
A while back I took stock of what we were doing as a math department to improve kids’ math fluency. It seemed that every year we had a chunk of kids who came up to sixth grade with amazing fact fluency. We had another chunk who fought with basic addition and multiplication much like struggling readers fought with multisyllabic words…. Read More
If you’re thinking about fractions, you might be a 5th grade teacher… Thanks to the Common Core State Standards, fifth grade now throws the wildest fraction party on the block! I taught 6th grade math back when that was fraction central, and I learned 3 key things along the way. They have been just applicable in the 5th grade classrooms… Read More
“The ones that are doing the talking are doing the learning.” I know that. But, no matter how many times I say it, the impact on student learning in front of me is profound and somehow surprising. There is no example stronger than that of talking about fractions in math class. I’ve spent most of my career spending part of… Read More
We have moved on to subtraction with renaming (2.NBT.7). You might call this regrouping… but really- if we think literally about what’s happening- we’re also giving the values new names! 50+10 is a different name for 60. So, renaming, regrouping… you know what we’re doing! What’s Working I’ve been doing a lot of this work with students in small groups…. Read More
Brilliant suggestion from my amazing friend at Teach Anyway:
To learn more about what it feels like to be a student with learning or attention difficulties, follow this link. You can select the criteria (grade and specific challenges) and you will be lead through a simulated experience and hear from students experiencing similar challenges. Powerful stuff!
www.understood.org/en/through-your-childs-eyes
Brilliant!!Before students show what they know, give them a chance to put their heads together, suggests educator Howie Hua:
🚨Genius Hack Alert!!!🚨
👀Hint cards!!! Have you tried this?? 🏆
Hint cards are my FAVORITE way to scaffold for a variety of learner needs in the same room.
🌈I use hint cards for all subjects. Here’s how I use them to differentiate in my math classroom, but keep an eye 👀out for my writing hint cards soon!✍🏻
#differentiation #mathintervention
