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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
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...
The Progression of Division
Learn the Progression of Division where we will explore fair sharing, arrays, area models, flexible division, the long division algorithm and algebra.
Avoiding Ineffective Uses of Technology With SAMR
It’s easy to forget why we integrate technology in our math class. Let’s use the SAMR Model to plan our lessons using technology with purpose and intent.
#Canada150Math Challenge
With the recent raising of The Great Canadian Flag in Windsor, Ontario, the GECDSB is looking to celebrate Canada’s Birthday through math! Are YOU in?
OAME 2017: The Beauty of Elementary Mathematics
OAME 2017 Speech: The Beauty of Elementary Mathematics. In this talk, I reference the complexity hidden deep within the elementary math curriculum.
Why Japanese Multiplication Works
Have you ever seen someone share the Japanese multiplication method on social media? Often times, it looks like nothing more than a math trick. It’s not!
Making Number Talks Matter
Learn about why Number Talks Matter and access an 8 step routine that can be used to facilitate an effective number talk in your grade 4-10 math classroom.
Counting Principles – Counting and Cardinality
A Progression of Counting and Quantity Success in mathematics begins with the development of a sense of number through counting and quantity. It may seem that children learn to count in much the same way that they learn their alphabet - by simply repeating numbers by...
The Progression of Fractions
Let’s take a journey exploring fractions from a simple definition all the way through four key fraction constructs we use in the K-8 Mathematics Curriculum.
The Progression of Multiplication
Learn the Progression of Multiplication through skip counting, arrays and area models as a means for how to emerge the standard algorithm for multiplication.