by Shannon McCartney | Feb 14, 2019 | *Behavior Intervention, *Parent Connection, Audience - K-5, Audience - Teachers
As teachers in today’s schools, we often are overwhelmed with our “to-dos.” We’re trying to manage the classroom, keep up with the curriculum, keep track of the snow days (at least here in Michigan!), the time you’ve lost and need to make up, and sometimes we forget...
by Shannon McCartney | Feb 8, 2019 | *Math Practices, *Technology, Audience - K-5, Audience - Teachers
In the 1950s classroom, all of the classrooms were arranged with desks in perfect rows, occupied by children dressed in perfect outfits and perfect penny loafer shoes, eager and ready to learn from their teacher, the main component in the front of the classroom....
by Shannon McCartney | Feb 1, 2019 | *Math Mights, *Number Talks, *Word Problems, Audience - K-5
It is a universally agreed upon fact that story problems are just confusing, for kids and teachers alike. Each district-purchased text or program presents a variety of strategies, but those strategies are not always conclusive, meaning they don’t always work for...
by Shannon McCartney | Jan 25, 2019 | *Addition, *Division, *Math Mights, *Multiplication, *Subtraction, *Word Problems, Audience - K-5, Audience - Teachers
“Ah, I see it now!” We hear that a lot during our model drawing trainings as teachers start to understand how to actually do model drawings. However, when they leave the comfort and structure of the training and start to apply the strategies they’ve learned to the...
by Shannon McCartney | Jan 17, 2019 | *Addition, *Math Mights, *Multiplication, *Subtraction, *Word Problems, Audience - K-5
Meet our newest Math Might Friend – Professor Barble! Let’s face it – most teachers feel like we drag our students through problem solving. Maybe we’ve taught using some variation of the CUBES method, which has students circle the numbers, underline the...
