Embrace Productive Struggle in Math with these 4 Powerful Strategies
It can be a challenge to guide your students through the productive struggle in math. These four strategies can build confidence and foster a growth mindset.
It can be a challenge to guide your students through the productive struggle in math. These four strategies can build confidence and foster a growth mindset.
Elevate you math workshop! Here are five great ways to increase student ownership and engagement during your math workshop time.
Feedback is important to help our young learners continue to grow. This includes feedback from teachers as well as feedback from peers. Today, I am talking specifically about peer feedback. Peer feedback can be very powerful if it is done effectively, and it can be integrated in many different areas
I always love it when I can find a way to add a little more fun into my classroom. I like it even better if the way is free! I found an awesome set of randomizers here. Today I’d like to share some ways I use this great site in
It seems like feelings toward challenging math problems tend to lean toward extremes. Students either really enjoy them or they really don’t. Many of my goals for this year revolve around math, including helping students stay motivated, even when the problems get tough. I’m working toward having a math class
I hope everyone is having a great summer! If you’re like me, thoughts are starting to swirl around in your head for the next school year. (We go back early – 8/13.) Today I would like to share a great book I read this summer about math conferences. I like
On an earlier post, I shared some upgrades to my math workshop. One of my favorite upgrades was creating a challenge bin for some of my students to use when they were finished with the assigned activities. Students are not allowed to choose the activities unless they have completed their