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These are not in lieu of learning number sense and the times tables, but handy as an accommodation while learning higher level skills and concepts. Our Transitions and Pre-Algebra students get a 25 x 25 table in their course materials (our instructors make their own), and teach students how to use them, I have not […]
March 20, 2018
(It’s not happening yet…) I just sent this email to Power in Numbers: Have you seen https://www.geogebra.org/m/zQ7ADTWX in geogebra? It’s a whole BOOK for GED … The “Isle of Mathematics” looks to have a trove of good things, and Geogebra is CC-BY … And I just saw a cool webinar (only because students aren’t here […]
February 16, 2018
Serendipity! I’m trying to do that minimalist fraction stuff and this fraction lesson is linked to on twitter. Yes, it’s Illustrative Math (IM) and I love this promotion of **going back** and doing stuff from earlier because that’s what they need. This linked to a lesson on fraction number lines which is exactly what the quiz […]
January 23, 2018
Okay, just dropped bike blog post into wrong place but I’ll move it later… Yesterday I got an article about “adapting perception, action and technology for mathematical reasoning” sent to me. Lots of scientific defense of the way our brains adapt and different parts do different kinds of processing, such as the way people who […]
December 6, 2017
From my tweetworld: I think this is an excellent idea: present these potentially overwhelming streams of symbols in a way that helps the learner know what to look at. (I also think we need to include practice reading stuff without that little crutch.) That said, it’s just a better-looking presentation of … symbols. It doesn’t […]
October 28, 2017
Time to make the promised blog post response to Tuesday’s webinar with our Power in Numbers user group. I caught the tail end of it, wherein Amber Delliger inquired of Dan Meyer: how can adult ed get more involved in the math ed community? She noted that adult educators can be tentative because many aren’t […]
October 3, 2017
Okay, this blogpost about creepy twist to MAP test kinda hit home: the test is also supposed to measure students’ “engagement,” and the teacher was supposed to intervene because, it would seem, a student was clicking through too quickly and was therefore deemed “disengaged.” Well, the student just works that fast. Yes, there are teachers […]
April 11, 2018
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