Manipulatives help students see and touch the math, which can help make connections to abstract algorithms and formulas. My colleague Jamie and I constantly discuss the idea of students using…
“Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them” is the first of the 8 Mathematical Practices we want all students to use within any domain. It is the keystone…
I have evolved in my thinking about the CRA approach. So what is the CRA approach? CRA stands for Concrete-Representational-Abstract and is an instructional approach to teaching math concepts. Concrete…
A friend and colleague of mine recently asked me a great question: If you had extra money as a school to invest in teaching math, what would you buy? Her…
Developing an understanding of time is a difficult concept for younger children. Think about the different ways we measure time: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, and the tools we…