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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
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.
The Progression of Proportional Reasoning From K-9
The underpinnings of proportional reasoning are born when students learn how to count and unitizing. Explore visual representations of this Big Idea.
Talk Less, Listen More
This year, I intend to speak less and listen more. I hope you’ll join me here as I try to learn this new role – one day at a time.
Does Memorizing Multiplication Tables Hurt More Than Help?
Are students suffering in math because we no longer memorize multiplication tables?Understanding multiplication is much more valuable for students to apply…
What Makes A 3 Act Math Task So Effective?
Instead of Teaching Lessons to Do Tasks When delivering teacher workshops, I almost always include a 3 Act Math Task as a way to model the 4-part math lesson framework and for teachers to experience the power of introducing new concepts by leveraging curiosity....
Is There a Best Way to Learn Mathematics?
End the ongoing debate; inquiry and explicit instruction both serve an important role in the math classroom to build both conceptual and procedural fluency.
Earning Versus Learning
Exploring fundamentals that help investors maximizing returns in the stock market and how they apply to professional development and teaching.
Are Math Facts “THE” Urgent Student Learning Need?
The underpinnings of proportional reasoning are born when students learn how to count and unitizing. Explore visual representations of this Big Idea.
Lecture Learning vs. Active Learning
This past week, Justin Reich referenced research and said “it is almost unethical to use lecturing in a control group when comparing with active learning.”
We Can Teach By Talking, But Are They Listening?
Today, I experienced first-hand why I should not have been teaching math by talking during the first 8 years of my career. Let me explain why…
Standards Based Grading GAMIFIED With Badges
Assessing students based on learning goals is great, but this new gamified approach I stumbled upon has potential to be a game-changer for my students.
The 4-Part Math Lesson
4-Part Math Lesson involves a contextual math task solved using inquiry to reveal a learning goal; connections are made to reveal algebraic representation.
Creating Math Through Graphing Stories
The Graphing Stories website has inspired me to empower my students to become creators of math rather than simply consumers of math knowledge.
Visualizing Proportional Reasoning: Working With Ratios and Proportions
Learn about how to find an unknown value when working with ratios and proportions through a series of questions using the Toronto Maple Leaf win:loss record