Guest Post by Jana Hazekamp, Math Educational Consultant & Coach Reading strategies in math class? Absolutely! Many years ago I was considering how I might continue to build my repertoire of strategies for teaching math and helping my students become...
By helping even the youngest students learn to notice and analyze naturally-occurring patterns all around them, we can build a foundation for critical thinking that they will use for the rest of their lives.
Ask kids what they had for dinner yesterday – they probably can’t remember! The ever-increasing amount of screen-time definitely has an adverse impact on students’ lives and it is quite damaging to their development of visual memory. Because visual memory has a profound effect on student development, we want it to be strong as we start to look at spelling.
I go into hundreds of classrooms a year, and I find the kindergarten classrooms to be the most interesting. At one time, we thought kindergarten was going to be a great, developmentally appropriate idea for our youngest students. I was part of the planning...
Students often have trouble seeing their school lessons as relevant to real life. Not only can this impact their motivation, it can make the information more difficult to comprehend and retain. For many students, it’s easier to understand a problem if it’s put into...
Even before elementary school, children ask questions of each other and of adults about things around them, including the natural and designed world. If students develop the practices of science and engineering, they can ask better questions and improve how they...
Can English/langauge arts, math, and science really relate to each other? This modified Venn diagram groups student practices in each discipline to show the relationships and convergences found in the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics Practices, ELA...
The residents of Mathville help 1-5 grade students build a solid foundation of problem solving strategies.