A 30 DAY 30 VIDEO SERIES 1 MINUTE AT A TIME THAT GIVES YOU A PEEK INTO A REAL MATH CLASS DOING THE REAL WORK OF SPARKING CURIOSITY AND FUELLING SENSE MAKING.
CREATE VISIBLE RANDOM GROUPING CARDS IN YOUR CLASSROOM. CREATE DIFFERENT GROUPINGS ON THE FLY!
Making Math Moments That Matter Podcast
Wondering how to create a classroom culture where students don’t want to stop exploring mathematics when the bell rings? Kyle Pearce from TapIntoTeenMinds.com and Jon Orr from MrOrr-IsAGeek.com team up to uncover how we can Make Math Moments That Matter for every student in the math classroom from Kindergarten through Grade 12. Discover how you can build easy to plan and fun to deliver math lessons that kids will not only love, but also learn from using the Making Math Moments That Matter 3-Part Framework. Get ready to learn as we interview math education influencers, engage in coaching calls with mathematics educators from around the world, and take deep dives into assessment, differentiation, student behaviour, engagement, problem solving, math fact fluency, and many other common teacher challenges as we strive to Make Math Moments That Matter.
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A yummy, belly aching activity that stretches proportional thinking across many grades levels.
We all learn to ride a bike through productive struggle, but we traditional don’t learn math that way. Learn why we teach math more like how we ride bikes.
In an ongoing effort to demonstrate that we can apply the 3 part framework of Spark Curiosity, Fuel Sense Making, Igniting Teacher Moves to any lesson in math class we’ll tackle the common problem of finding the equation of a line between two points.
In this 3-Act Task students will be presented with a puzzling video of 3 “hour glass” sand timers. Students will solve a brain-teaser like problem while ultimately learning about common multiples and the least common multiple (LCM).
HOW CAN WE HARNESS THE POWER OF PRODUCTIVE STRUGGLE TO TEACH STUDENTS TO BE RESILIENT PROBLEM SOLVERS?
One common misconception around how we should plan our lessons is that planning and creating lessons, course outlines, and assessments is all done in isolation.
This fall themed activity asks students to predict how many rubber bands will implode a pumpkin. Use data collected from over 120 exploded pumpkins and create scatterplots to make predictions.
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