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Free 4-Part Video Course
Just like you, we’re frustrated with how easily students in math class give up when solving unfamiliar problems. We want to help our students as much as we can, just like you do. Join Kyle & Jon in this 4-part video series to learn how to build resilient problem solvers.
Online Teaching
Plan lessons for online remote learning that apply the Make Math Moments 3-Part Framework to Spark Curiosity, Fuel Sense Making, and Ignite Teacher Moves.
Download The Guidebook
Just like you, we’re frustrated with how easily students in math class give up when solving unfamiliar problems. We want to help our students as much as we can, just like you do. Join Kyle & Jon in this 4-part video series to learn how to build resilient problem solvers.
Starting The School Year
The First Week of School is supposed to be exciting, fun, and a great way to build a positive classroom culture that will promote a productive disposition towards mathematics.
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How To Teach Percent to Build Fluency!
How you can teach percent using a flexible model that helps students build fluency in the area of percent, proportion, ratios, and rates.
Building Multiplication Fluency Through Ratios, Rates and Proportional Relationships
How To Build Multiplication Fluency Through Ratios, Rates and Proportional Relationships instead of waiting for mastery to tackle challenging concepts.
How To Teach Ratios Through Division
How To Teach Ratios By Starting With Partitive Division Using Context, Strategies and Models in your classroom. Scaling composed unit ratios in tandem.
How To Teach The Distributive Property of Multiplication Using Context, Strategies and Models
How To Teach The Distributive Property of Multiplication Using Context, Strategies and Models in your classroom using real world problem based math lessons.
How To Teach Algebra: 3 Models For Solving 2-Step Equations
Help your students become more flexible and fluent with solving 2-step equations by showing them how to use these three models consistently.
How To Create Animations For Your Math Lessons
Create slick animations that will make you math lessons pop! Jon will walk through a few examples of how to use Magic Move from Apple’s Keynote to create the animations found in the Make Math Moments catalogue of problem-based lessons.
Teach The Standards To Build Fluency and Flexibility With Number and Operations
Learn how you can build fluency and flexibility with number and operations through the exploration of all of those curriculum standards that we’re forced to teach. Classroom sneak peek.
Balancing Practice & Problem-Based Lessons
In this video post we’ll unpack the key ideas of when to incorporate practice while teaching a problem-based lesson so you can maximize efficiency in your limited time.
The Make Math Moments 3-Part Framework Guidebook
Get kids leaning in to learn mathematics by building conceptual understanding and fluency to ensure success for all students.
How To Teach Exponents: Avoiding a Common Misconception When Teaching Through Problems
In this video Jon will outline his own journey of rushing to the algorithm and show an example of a recent lesson where he avoided the rush and let students think while problem solving.
How To Build Fluency and Flexibility Multiplying Fractions With Number Talks
Learn how you can build fluency and flexibility multiplying fractions using the area model after introducing the concept through a problem based math lesson
How To Solve Proportions Without Cross Multiplication
Avoid rushing to the algorithm when solving ratios and proportions problems by using ratio and rate reasoning strategies instead of setting up proportions and cross multiplying.
How To Teach Algebra: Division of Polynomials
In this video we’ll show you how to connect factoring and polynomial division to existing models for division from elementary and middle school.
How To Teach Algebra: Substitution and Solving Equations – A Virtual Classroom Sneak Peek
Algebra can be a tough concept to teach. Take a sneak peek into a virtual classroom as we emerge algebraic substitution and solving equations
4 Ways To Find Awesome Math Resources Online
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How To Avoid The Rush to the Algorithm With THIS Common Concept
This video is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones.
How To Make Better Choices In Math Class
This video is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones.
How to Emerge Mathematical Behaviours Through Questioning
Learn how to Emerge Mathematical Behaviours Through Questioning in your math class with these quick tips and problem based math lessons