A Year of Reading

Yesterday, I introduced my students to the new-to-me strategy of multiplying using a ratio table. We did a few whole number examples toget...

Thanks to friend and colleague Maria Caplin (@mariacaplin) for tagging me in a tweet with this video. She knows I am always looking for gre...

How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit On a Plane? by Laura Overdeck is a fun new book that I discovered thanks to someone sharing on Social Media...

Last week, my colleague Kami Wenning and our math coach, McKenzie Zimmerman conducted an informal morning PD session on the site  Estimate ...

I have been reading lots of math professional books as we've implemented Math Workshop in our district.  This summer, I read  Well ...

It's Math Monday!  Join Mandy at Enjoy and Embrace Learning for the Math Monday link up! We were going to begin a big est...

It's Math Monday!  Join Mandy at Enjoy and Embrace Learning   for the Math Monday link up! Dividing whole numbers by uni...

It might not happen so much for primary teachers, but I am humbled on about a weekly basis by students in my 5th grade math class who ar...

I am joining Mandy at Enjoy and Embrace Learning for Math Monday. I had been struggling with an authentic reason to introduce Google ...

I am joining Mandy at Enjoy and Embrace Learning  for Math Monday. Franki has resolved to join Alyson Beecher's Nonfiction Book Chall...

It's Math Monday!  Join Mandy at Enjoy and Embrace Learning for the Math Monday link up! The first few days of math ar...

So excited that Mandy began a weekly time for us, as bloggers, to share our thinking about math teaching and learning.  Today is the fir...

I returned to the classroom last year after 4 years as an elementary librarian. The two years before I became a librarian, I taught only...