Growing Up Good at Math

“When did you get so good at math?” I asked my 12-year-old son, Tucker, and he couldn’t contain his smile.

How to Promote a Deeper Understanding of Place Value

COHERENCE When I was a second grader, I thought place value was fairly dull.

Comparison of Fractions — Beyond Common Denominators

STRATEGIES Given two fractions, how do we compare them? As a young student, the way I learned to compare fractions was to use the strategy of finding...

Examining Student Work for Measurement Division

STRATEGY Traditionally speaking, most schools in the United States teach division of fractions procedurally. Students learn the method, but never...

Teaching Order of Operations Through the Relationships of the Operations

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The Statistical Project: Student-directed Discovery

Young children are passionate and excited as they discover and explore their world. Look at the child pictured below. A snack became an exciting math...

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