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...
by kylepearce3 | Dec 26, 2017 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Sparking Curiosity
Instead of Teaching Lessons to Do Tasks Over the past 5 years, I’ve been exploring the use of Dan Meyer’s 3 Act Math Task approach in my math classroom and share many of my own tasks when facilitating workshops. After participants experience these tasks in the role of...
by kylepearce3 | Sep 19, 2017 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions, Visualizing Mathematics
Division From Fair Sharing to Long Division and Beyond Over the past school year, I have had an opportunity to work with a great number of K to 8 teachers in my district with a focus on number sense and numeration. As a secondary math teacher turned K-12 math...
by kylepearce3 | Mar 4, 2017 | Featured Post, Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Visualizing Mathematics
Japanese Multiplication? Chinese Multiplication? Line Multiplication? Whatever it’s called, it’s only a trick if you simply memorize without meaning Have you ever wondered why Japanese multiplication works? I’ve heard some call it Chinese multiplication,...
by kylepearce3 | Dec 27, 2016 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions, Visualizing Mathematics
Exploring Fraction Constructs and Proportional Reasoning Fractions are a beast of a concept that causes struggles for many adults and students alike. While we all come to school with some intuition to help us with thinking fractionally and proportionally, the...
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