I was invited to come into Karen Fallan’s grade 4/5 classroom to kick off their decimal exploration, so I spent about an hour with this lovely bunch of students (and teachers) on Monday morning. Karen’s teaching partner, James, came to observe as he had some remedy time (I love it when teachers have the chance …
Decimals and Place Value Mats
Sequences For BC Math Curriculum
I get asked a lot for scope and sequence and so here are some ideas for each grade K-8. Please keep in mind the following when viewing the sequences for each grade level: Sequence: There are lots of right ways to organize the content and each sequence is one way you may choose to …
Vlog: Combining Content
Question: Do you ever combine math concepts together? I love combining concepts for a number of reasons: it helps students to see the connections and relationships between concepts, it reintroduces concepts so that students retain their learning, and it saves me time (allows me to teach more of the curricular content than teaching it …
Early Predictors – What I Learned from Dr. Daniel Ansari’s Webinar
Early math achievement is a better predictor of success in school in general (math, reading, etc.) than early reading! I find this fascinating considering that there is WAY more funding and research of literacy than numeracy. For YEARS, I’ve been saying that numeracy is too important to always be playing second fiddle to literacy – …
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Art & Math? Who Knew?!?
I started taking a drawing class. Last year when I was in a classroom teaching about growth mindset I used an example of how I’m not good at art (yet) and one of the students replied “every teacher I’ve ever had has made that same statement. What is it with teachers and art?” It …
