New blog post!
On the value of manipulatives in some recent work with first graders.
mathforlove.com/2026/01/mani...
New blog post!
On the value of manipulatives in some recent work with first graders.
mathforlove.com/2026/01/mani...
Fraction visualizer in #geogebra www.geogebra.org/m/rewqc4mp
20.12.2025 02:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A good mental math strategy to have: doubling and halving
14.09.2025 14:16 — 👍 43 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 3It’s integrated with Migrants’ journeys. Started with The Tar Beach to intro story quilts, played with own designs. Discussed math features. Read more stories and looked at different types of quilts. Discussed symbolism. Created own quilt blocks. Symmetry, area, shape… finished with Keepers Quilt.
12.06.2025 04:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My grade 4 students are currently learning about the significance and design of story quilts. They’re loving creating their own. I hadn’t known about barn quilts though, cool.
11.06.2025 23:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I like to also use “goal free problem” prompts, so you could ask the students what they could solve from this data.
31.03.2025 00:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pi Day ideas!
Including fun ideas from Desmos Classroom and @davidporas.bsky.social
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The quadric you have when you don’t have a quadric
25.02.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A few I've gathered along the way, hope there are some new ones there ... thelearnersway.net/ideas/2021/5...
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"Any kind of teaching can be done ‘badly’. Explicit teaching can be dull and disengaging, just as inquiry-based teaching can be unfocused or pitched inappropriately. It is intellectually lazy to promote a ‘good’ version of one by attacking a ‘weak’ or caricatured version of the other." - Guy Claxton
29.12.2024 03:42 — 👍 34 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Different age but similar messaging - Currently developing Yr 3/4 group, +4 years above peers. Choosing lessons to enrich thinking not just upwards. Using below as my touchstone. Started figurative numbers relationships as they'd know 'the tricks' from tutoring, so focus on patterns and reasoning
05.12.2024 01:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If you're still looking for ideas, many ideas within variety of Figure It Out lessons but particularly within the Proportional Reasoning books. In NZ level 3 relates to learning generally in yr 5 and 6, Level 4 Yr 7 & 8 etc.
newzealandcurriculum.tahurangi.education.govt.nz/figure-it-ou...
