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My #NCTMBoston Takeaways

I had the great pleasure of presenting at the Annual NCTM Conference.  For those of you interested, you can download my presentation on my other website www.MathematicallyMinded.com. This year it was held in Boston and I got to take a tour of Fenway Park!!  I even got sucked into the excitement of game day and […]

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My Dave Ramsey Goals

It was just last week that I wrote about how sticking to New Year’s Resolutions is really just like problem solving.  Then a few days ago I was listening to Dave Ramsey via the iPhone app on my drive to work and heard him re-iterate the 5 things that differentiate a WISH from a GOAL […]

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My Evaluation of Prodigy Math

I get emails a lot from teachers asking me what I think of this program, or that app, etc.  Well, two times in one week I got asked about the math game Prodigy Math.  I hadn’t heard of it, so after the second question I decided to look in to it, especially because the second […]

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Organizing Your Desktop

Ok, so this post has nothing to do with mathematics.  I had so much fun doing this I just had to share.  I’m not even sure how I came across this blog post by The Organized Classroom, but I really needed it.  The desktop of my computer looks a lot like how my brain feels […]

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Pre-service Elementary Ed Students and Student Loans

One of my jobs is teaching Math for Elementary Education at a university nearby.  Most of the students who take the course are Freshmen and Sophomores.  This semester I gave them an extra credit assignment designed to: 1) Encourage them to not take out any loans or reduce the amount of loans they do take out; whether […]

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PreK-2 Teachers and NCTM

A few weeks ago I had the great honor of going to the NCTM Headquarters in Virginia to attend the Program Committee Meeting because I get to help plan the NCTM 2015 Regional Conference in Nashville.  It was interesting to me for lots of reasons, but two of them are still bouncing around in my […]

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Quick Differentiated Math Fact Assessment

Right now we are in the midst of the state assessments, yet as I was helping my Kindergarten son get checked into his classroom I was reminded that the assessments teachers do to inform instruction can be quick and easily differentiated.  His teacher decided to put a math fact on their name tag so that […]

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