A school support person sat with me in the school’s staff room today and told me her math woes. Her daughter is her 3rd and youngest to attend the school we were sitting in - a 4th grader whom she deemed “bad at math.” Lately I’ve been reading Mathematical Mindsets and Building A Better Teacher, both of … Continue reading River Stones
I recently participated in a 5th grade lesson on multiplying decimals. The team had wanted to inquire about dividing fractions and decided this was the prior learning students were lacking to build a solid foundation. So a team of 6 of us spent a day researching standards, discussing the learning sequence, then collaboratively planning the … Continue reading Multiplying Decimals with Area Model Lesson
Mathie Momma 