by kylepearce3 | Feb 19, 2018 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter
Importance of Context and Concrete Manipulatives From Kindergarten Through Grade 12 During the first half of my teaching career, I would spend what seemed to be the first half of a math lesson teaching a new math concept by sharing definitions, formulas, steps and...
by kylepearce3 | Feb 10, 2018 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Visualizing Mathematics
Have you ever looked at a group of items and just knew how many there were without actually counting? This ability to “see” how many items are in a group without counting is called subitizing. The ability to subitize is an important part of developing a...
by kylepearce3 | Feb 4, 2018 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Visualizing Mathematics
Making Math More Accessible Through Concrete Manipulatives and Visuals What comes to mind when you think back to learning math in school? It would seem that most people I ask typically respond with a negative or neutral response and very few with something positive....
by kylepearce3 | Feb 2, 2018 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Visualizing Mathematics
For some, collecting like terms and simplifying expressions isn’t too hard a task. For others, it can be quite difficult if they are depending on memorizing the rules without any real context to go along with it. Students may be asking questions similar to these...
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