Teaching and Learning
100 New Esti-Mysteries
This school year I’m creating and sharing 100 new Esti-Mysteries. You can download your copies by using blue download links below. I hope these bring joy and rich math talk to your classroom! New This Week! Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Kindergarten: Esti-Mystery 0104 – “Unrolling the Clues” Grades 1-2: Esti-Mystery 1121 – “Celebrate!” Grades…
Read MoreVideo: How to Draw a 3D Number 2 (bonus challenges included!)
Are you looking for an activity for 2.22.2022? Here is a video for you. It shows how to draw a 3-dimensional number 2. Of course, that is just the beginning. If you look closely, you’ll see that the 2 is actually made of 22 small cubes. If you look even more closely you’ll see the…
Read More150 New Esti-Mysteries
This school year, I’m creating 150 brand new Esti-Mysteries. I’ll be posting a new one nearly every day for the rest of the school year – just like last year. This is my way of sharing math joy with you all year long! Prepare for math joy and rich math talk in your classroom as…
Read MorePart 4 – New Esti-Mysteries and Number Sense Resources Every Day for the Rest of the School Year
To support fellow educators during this extremely challenging year, I’m posting a brand new, downloadable math resource every day through the end of the school year. The purpose is to provide encouragement, to share a brand new classroom resource every day, and to promote joy in the math classroom. In the midst of the…
Read MorePart 3 – New Esti-Mysteries and Number Sense Resources Every Day for the Rest of the School Year
Hi, Friends. I’m posting a brand new, free math resource every school day for the rest of the school year. This is part 3 of the series. This effort is my way of spreading encouragement, providing a daily resource to fellow educators, and promoting math joy during a challenging year. I look forward to posting…
Read MoreThe Multiplication Course by Steve Wyborney
The Multiplication Course by Steve Wyborney is finished and completely ready! It is a highly interactive multiplication course – on YouTube – with 156 short videos. They are completely ready for all students, all teachers, all parents, everyone! The course teaches students deep, rich, and important multiplication concepts while they are also learning…
Read MoreThe 12 Most Popular Math Strategies and Downloads
Over the past 5 years, this blog has seen nearly 3.1 million views. The most popular strategies from the blog all have one thing in common: They include downloadable resources and strategies which can be immediately used in the classroom. They are also free! I’m sometimes asked these two questions: “Which are the most popular…
Read MoreFREE e-Book: Top 20 Teaching Tips for 2020
At the beginning of every calendar year, I write something new for the education community. In 2017, I wrote Splat! (It took me until nearly the middle of February to finish it that year!) In 2018, I wrote Cube Conversations (I actually managed to finish that series a few days early, just before January.) In…
Read MoreThe Estimation Clipboard
The Estimation Clipboard is a set of 40 lessons that each include 4 highly similar images. Each image provides an invitation to estimate. Then as new images are introduced, the students’ context and intrigue will grow – and so will their excitement. Jennifer Barker recently wrote about her experience with The Estimation Clipboard in her…
Read More80 Printable Cube Conversations Pages and 4 Instructional Strategies
Several weeks ago, I posted Cube Conversations, which is a set of 80 animated lessons designed to promote visually rich math discourse. You can learn more about – and download – all 80 of the Cube Conversations lessons here. Today, I’m adding a new – and very important – element to the series, which is…
Read MoreThe Fraction Splat! Series
Fraction Splats! have arrived! The original Splat! post rocketed up to over 35,000 hits in less than a month, which included over 19,000 lesson downloads! All 50 lessons in the Splat! post involved whole numbers. In this post, I’ve turned my attention to fractions, and have created 20 new lessons for you to download!…
Read MoreSplat!
Welcome to Splat! You are only moments away from a VERY POWERFUL, highly interactive number sense strategy that can be used at any grade level! This post includes 50 (fifty!) free, downloadable PowerPoint math lessons! Watch the video, download some (or all) of the lessons, and experience what happens when you unleash this resource in…
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