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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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K-5 Task Examples

Today I am doing a workshop using Margaret Smith and Mary Kay Stein’s book 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions.   There are 5 (plus 0) practices that teachers need to do when planning a lesson that they want to have a good mathematical discussion about. 0. Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks – setting goals […]

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How Do You Teach Math?

Today I am at a Statewide Math Academy in my home state.  Our keynote this morning was by Phil Daro and one thing he said has really resonated with me and I’d like to pose this question to all of you:   Do you teach math to help your students get an answer or do […]

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5 Ways to Build Math Minds

Last summer I left the job that I had for 7 years and have slowly been transitioning out of it (they kept bringing me back in :).  With that job I was always busy during the summers doing trainings for teachers, but this summer and most of last summer I’ve gotten to be home hanging out […]

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Make Math Informal and Connected

Tonight I was sitting down with my 6 year old son doing his math homework.  One of the last problems was 38 < ___ and ___< 60.  At first he put 38 < 39 and then he thought for a moment and said, “Can it be ANY number that is bigger than 38?” and I […]

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Children’s Mathematics – The Book That Changed My Teaching Forever

My journey to become a Recovering Traditionalist started with the book Children’s Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction by Thomas Carpenter et al.  So, when I was invited to participate in the blog hop entitled “Math Books That Will Change Your Teaching,” that book instantly came to mind.  This blog hop was organized by The Research Based Classroom and […]

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Can Timed Tests Help Develop a Growth Mindset?

Yesterday, during a PD session, I was asked my thoughts on timed tests.  With all the talk about growth versus fixed mindsets, the topic of timed tests for facts has become a popular topic.  My thoughts may not match up with the popular thought of the moment, but I’m going to post it anyway.  (If you don’t […]

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