I've spent the past two weeks discussing the three different types of math lessons. (You can check out the introduction here and the...

Last week, I mentioned that there were three different types of math lessons. Considering which type of math lesson can help you...

When planning a math lesson, considering the 3 types of lessons can help build your expected outcomes. Whether planning a conceptual, procedural or application-based lesson will shape what types of materials to use, what problems to present and even the types of student responses expected. In the next 3 blog posts, I'm going to explain each type and even give you an example. Today, I just want to give a broad overview of each type. The first type of lesson is my favorite:

I'm going to ask you to take a deep breath and consider your mindset before reading this blog post. I want to ask you to consider why you learn math. What's your goal? Why should you learn math at all? Remember when your teacher told you that you couldn't walk around with a calculator when you are a grown up and that's why you needed to do all the paper and pencil work? Well..that's not exactly true anymore. So, what's the point for learning all this stuff when I can ju

I often get asked about math manipulatives from educators. Do you really need all those math manipulatives? Where do you put them? How do you keep the students from just playing with them? I always answer with a resounding yes! to needing math manipulatives. If you have read my other blog posts, you know the research from Jerome Bruner on concrete-pictorial-abstract. He found that students need that concrete experience to make sense of new concepts. Their hands are movin

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