by Jon & Kyle | Oct 18, 2021 | Featured Post, Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Pedagogy, Professional Development, Progressions
How To Teach Algebra: The Distributive Property Progression with the Area Model (CRA) “Ditch the algebra tiles!” Many middle school and high school teachers will often eliminate the use of algebra tiles / mathematical models or in many more cases not even...
by kylepearce3 | Nov 12, 2018 | Fuelling Sense Making, Ignite Your Next Move, Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions
Over the past few years, I have been spending a lot of time thinking about proportional relationships. From unpacking the information in the Paying Attention to Proportional Reasoning document to meeting with a proportional reasoning symposium group through the...
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 | Jan 21, 2017 | Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions, Visualizing Mathematics
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...
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...
by kylepearce3 | Dec 11, 2016 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions, Visualizing Mathematics
Arrays and Area Models to The Standard Algorithm Did you know that the words “array” and “area model” appear in the Grade 1-8 Math Curriculum a combined 22 times? Not only do arrays and area models help to support the development of...
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