by Shannon McCartney | Dec 13, 2018 | *Math Practices, Audience - Teachers
As I’m in schools throughout Michigan and the United States, every place I go has a different way of thinking about math and different levels of rigor and expectation. We need to rethink traditional math and make a shift away from memorizing procedures and more...
by Shannon McCartney | Nov 29, 2018 | *Math Practices, *Number Talks, Audience - K-5
My daughter Emma (7th grade) has done pretty well in math so far. She’s an average student, gives decent effort, and gets really great grades (she’s actually in the National Junior Honor Society!). As Emma moved through elementary school, many of the things I talk...
by Shannon McCartney | Nov 16, 2018 | *Intervention Strategies, *Math Games, *Number Talks, *Numeracy, *Parent Connection
We launched our videos last week! Did you miss them?? Go check them out now! We talked about the videos looking at the area of numeracy in the previous blog, helping kids to subitize, instantly recognize how many dots are on the card, with the games Deck o’ Dots Duel,...
by Shannon McCartney | Nov 9, 2018 | *Addition, *Math Games, *Numeracy, *Subtraction, Audience - K-5, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - PreK, Audience - Upper Elementary (3-5)
This week, on our website, we are launching a new tab – video tutorials! We are pleased to finally be able to provide this much-requested feature, but first… A Brief History of Deck o’ Dots The idea for this project began about three and a half years ago...
