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 | Jan 18, 2018 | *Math Games, *Math Workshop, *Motor Skills (Fine and Gross), *Numeracy, Audience - Teachers
Last week I was in New Orleans working with Lafourche Parish preschool teachers. The goal of the day was numeracy, and one of the highlights was the afternoon make-and-take session, where we had five stations for teachers to visit. In addition to working on numeracy,...
by Sherry McElhannon | Sep 28, 2017 | *Addition, *Early Intervention
I love listening to kids and their math reasoning when you give them an opportunity to tell you how they think! They have masterful minds. I love the ways they come up with to tell you how their brain is thinking, and even if they aren’t sure how their brain is...
by Sherry McElhannon | Sep 15, 2017 | *Early Intervention, *Numeracy, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - PreK
Kids can look at a digit and recognize it as an 8, but they often don’t understand what’s behind the digit. Yes, the symbol means 8, but 8 could be 4 and 4, or 5 and 3, or 6 and 2. In some countries, they teach letters last and the sounds first. If the student doesn’t...