A Dozen Fun Ways to Wrap Up the School Year

…Learning Games I’m amazed at the number of free and inexpensive online learning games available. If you have a computer in your classroom, you have access to all sorts of…

Solving Unknown Perimeter Mysteries

…deep understanding. When you develop these concepts in a step-by-step manner, students are far more likely to grasp those concepts and retain them. As one student who tested the materials…

Why I Stopped Criticizing Common Core Math

…that celebrities and comedians like to paint a picture of students using number parts and number lines as adults, (ahem–Stephen Colbert) and I laugh right along with them…because using those…

Math is More Than a Numbers Game

…to read and understand the language of mathematics than on the ability to perform mathematics computation. In other words … Math is more than a numbers game. Years ago, standardized…

Solving the Hand Raising Problem

…that receives a large number of responses, I’ll compile the best answers to create a helpful blog post. That way your great ideas won’t get lost in Facebook land!  …

Fun Games for Learning the 50 States

How to Play Find the States Showdown: The first Leader selects a number card from the State Numbers deck and announces the number to the team. Everyone looks at the…

DonorsChoose: A Jackpot of Classroom Funding!

…you’re like most teachers, you spend far too much money on classroom supplies and resources, so you owe it to yourself to learn about DonorsChoose. Francie is a true DonorsChoose…