by Sherry McElhannon | 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 Sherry McElhannon | Oct 5, 2017 | *Math Games, *Math Manipulatives, *Math Workshop
Math involves a lot of preparation, especially when you’re using manipulatives. We want to put the C back in CPA (concrete, pictorial, abstract). Of course, C stands for concrete, but it also stands for careful planning! You don’t want to just have the Math Salad Bar...
by Sherry McElhannon | Nov 4, 2016 | *Curriculum, Audience - Teachers
Usually the beginning is a good place to start, but not necessarily when lesson planning! The idea of backwards design first came about in 1947, but was popularized by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe when they published their book Understanding by Design in the 1990s....