Category: Teaching and Learning
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The Power of the PLN
It is November, 2004. I have 22 fifth grade students, but I’m not standing in front of them. In fact, I’m not in my classroom. And I’m not even standing.…
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The Parent’s Story of the Child
Your potential effectiveness as a teacher to each student will continually increase throughout the year. Why? Because you have the opportunity to better understand each child as the school year…
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Give Students the Answer
What happens if we give students the answers to the questions we ask? Take a look…
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The Red Box Challenge
Here is another hundreds chart that I created in PowerPoint. This is the Light Switch Hundreds Chart. Can you explain why it arrives at the final set of numbers? Try…
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The Animated Multiplication Table
I made multiplication table using PowerPoint and went on to discover some very interesting relationships within the table. You will see several here. Watch the video below. Click here to…
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Letting Noticing Lead to Wondering
This post is simply my moving squares around using PowerPoint and letting it lead me to wonder about mathematical concepts. You should watch it and see if it makes you…
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Why We Must Wrestle With Content
I was awake at 5:30 this morning. Maybe you were, too. For me, it was because of a math lesson that was coming up in a few hours: subtracting negative…
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Losing the Mustard Bottle
The mustard bottle was only inches away. It stood on the rolling cart next to the overhead projector. The nearly blinding light from the projector shone through the transparency and…
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Finding Bedrock
Education moves and changes quickly. It’s changing right now. We all feel it – and we should, because we care so much about it. The list of changes is long,…