Making Meaning in Math: Making Arguments
Making meaning in Math by Making Arguments and Claims.
Students can develop critical thinking skills when they are provided rich opportunities to use discernment about mathematical patterns and connections.
This week’s entry provides ideas and resources on what this can look like in your classroom!
Making Meaning in Math: Math Vocabulary
Words have meaning, often multiple meanings. When we compare how we use certain words in math and in common language (or other subjects), the meanings of the words vary widely. Helping students to navigate how we use specific vocabulary in math is essential to helping them make meaning.
Making Meaning in Math: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mathematics
Interdisciplinary learning is one way in which we can help young mathematicians make meaning of what they learn. Rich opportunities to apply math in other content areas, helps students to see it as a meaningful practice with usefulness, and less abstract. In this entry, I share how I use math in science. While this is a connection that seems more intuitive, elementary students still need support with explicitly recognizing the relationships between the disciplines. Purposeful instruction and activities help to facilitate those connections.
Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year (updated)
Brain elasticity, helpful habits, and strategies for problem solving:
These tools are useful for students at every grade level. Getting all students to think and act like a mathematician early will go a long way!
Keeping Students Engaged in Remote Learning
Remote learning has made even the best among veteran teachers feel like they are starting from day one all over again. While remote learning has its challenges, it by no means has to be a slug for teachers and students. There is no guarantee that students can resist dropping the perfect memes into each others DMs during class, but with a few changes to our teaching approach, we can keep them engaged and wanting to learn for longer.
My Favorite Things: Remote Teaching Resources
Just like in the “before times” a key to successful learning is equipping teachers and students with resources. In this post, I share some of my favorite and most used resources for remote teaching.
Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year
Brain elasticity, helpful habits, and strategies for problem solving:
These tools are useful for students at every grade level. Getting all students to think and act like a mathematician early will go a long way!
Starting the Year with Care
Welcome back!
As we return back to school, educators feel the weight of creating a learning environment that is safe and welcoming for their students. Whether we’re finding ways to engage students virtually, or protecting them in the physical classroom - or, in some cases both - those priorities are coupled with ensuring students’ emotional well-being.