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...

Have you had a kindness? Pass it on.  ~Henry Burton That Feeling You Get When You Solve a Hard Math Problem The numbers clic...

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...

The new book Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You Had is a treasure!  It is a huge book and filled with so much great thinking about w...

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 ...

I have been thinking about how to better share our math thinking as part of our math workshop.  I have played around a bit with Padlet for ...

I saw this graphic on Lester Laminack's FB page and started thinking about the ditties and tricks we teach. When are they a good su...

Because of the holiday, I have some extra time to play around with my favorite math -- baking. I love the precision of measuring all o...

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

Last May, we took our 3rd graders to the Columbus Zoo on a field trip. We have a great zoo in Columbus so it s always a great trip. But la...

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...

What I thought I'd be working on this year: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by ...