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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.
Our Most Recent Posts / Videos
How To Complete The Square using Algebra Tiles
Completing the Square can be one of the most tedious procedures you can teach in algebra, but it doesn’t have to be.
Harness the visual nature of mathematics and the visual nature of “creating an actual square” using algebra tiles or the area model.
How To Teach Fractions Through Problem Based Lessons
Teaching fractions can be tough on both the teacher and student. Learn how to unpack fractions with your students through a problem based approach!
3 Math Strategies To Engage Students While Teaching Remotely
Learn three strategies that engage students in the classroom, promote and drive mathematical discourse, and build a positive safe learning environment. Three strategies that have worked while we were face to face and they now work while teaching remotely! If you use one or all three strategies in your remote class then you’re sure to avoid those awkward silences and spark discussions that allow you to listen to your students thinking!
How To Start The School Year Off Right
Starting off the school year right should be top of mind whenever we start a new school year. Here’s our Tips For The First Days Of Math Class.
How To Make Math Moments From A Distance
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.
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.
Sometimes Visual Is Not Enough
As much as I’m an advocate for visualization because “Math IS Visual”, it can be easy for us to move too quickly from concrete to the iconic stage.
Why The Unit Of Measure Matters
The unit of measure is often ignored in math class with the intent of making things easier for students, but it is quite the opposite! Let’s learn why…
Exploring Proportional Relationships Developmentally
Proportional Relationships are much more complex than math teachers and parents give them credit for when we teach memorizing steps and procedures.
Memorization vs. Automaticity: Back to Basics or Beyond the Basics?
We’ve all heard it before; kids don’t know their math facts! While this may be true for some, what is more important than memorizing alone is building a conceptual understanding.
Get Students On Task And Engaged With Whiteboards
Research Says That Using Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces (VNPS) Keep Kids On Task Longer If you are a long time reader of my blog, you’ve probably noticed many in-class pictures involve students writing on desks with erasable markers. Other times, you’ll see students...
The Complete Guide to Spiralling Your Math Curriculum
Do your students struggle to retain their learning from math class? Are you finding yourself having to reteach because students don’t have the prior knowledge for today’s lesson? Then spiralling and interleaving is perfect for you! Take some time and explore the complete guide to spiralling math class!
Make Math Matter With Concreteness Fading
For years, I was spinning my wheels trying to teach students how to make sense of mathematics through abstract representations, when the key was making math concrete and visual through the concreteness fading model or concrete, representational, abstract (CRA).
Counting With Your Eyes: Subitizing
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. Read to learn more.
Lower the Floor in Math Class
Struggling to find a way to make math more accessible for all students in your classroom? In this post, we’ll give examples why using concrete manipulatives and visual representations is a great place to start!
Counting With Your Eyes: Subitizing
Using algebra tiles when simplifying polynomial expressions can make collecting like terms more visual and understandable for your students. Learn More…
Using Tasks to Teach Lessons
The underpinnings of proportional reasoning are born when students learn how to count and unitizing. Explore visual representations of this Big Idea.
Why I Ask Students to Notice and Wonder
Recently, Jon Orr and I received some descriptive feedback from James Francis from Knowledgehook after watching us co-present a workshop titled “Making Math Moments That Matter” at the GECDSB Math Symposium. After sharing some of the pieces he really enjoyed, he also...