Since the 3rd grade team begins the year with an addition and subtraction unit in Investigations the teachers and I were having a conversation about how students understand place value. While I don’t see teachers using the HTO (hundreds/tens/ones) chart in their classrooms, students still seem to talk about numbers in that sense. For example, […]
After all of the interesting conversation around Christopher’s (@trianglemancsd) Shapes Book and a conversation with Faith (@Foizym), I thought it would be fun to take this thought about “Which One Doesn’t Belong” into my students’ decimal work. With these decimals, I wanted to draw out reasonings about closeness to benchmarks, equivalents, and properties of numbers […]
There are some standards I think we do such a great job developing in early elementary, but never revisit explicitly when students learn about different numbers such as fractions and decimals. I blogged about this in reference to even and odd numbers last year, but this past week I have found another: Early elementary spends […]
As a part of my work with Teaching Channel, I am collecting video of students doing various math routines in the classroom. Some of which, I am facilitating, while others are led by teachers in my building! It is such a wonderfully exciting and scary thing…putting our practice out there for everyone. For this first […]
It happens every year, in what seems like every grade level…students continually call a rhombus a diamond. Last year, when we heard 3rd graders saying just this, Christopher helped the 3rd grade teachers and me put the students’ thinking to the test with a Which One Doesn’t Belong he created. This year, at the beginning […]
Last week, I wrote a bit about place value after doing a Which One Doesn’t Belong activity with a 3rd grade class. Since then, I have been thinking A LOT about how complicated place value really is. I think you can get a feel for the various ways we handle place value with students in […]
Every year in 5th grade, when we begin classifying quadrilaterals, students will continually call a rhombus a diamond. It never fails. While doing a Which One Doesn’t Belong in 3rd grade yesterday, the same thing happened, so Christopher’s tweet came at the most perfect time! (On Desmos here: https://t.co/rZQhu2SGnR) Which one doesn't belong? (Diamond edition) cc […]
Earlier this year, I had a student bring up a great conversation about odd and even numbers: https://mathmindsblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/things-i-have-noticed-and-wondered/ After this idea about even/odd rational numbers surfaced, I started having realizations about ideas that we, as teachers, do not ever revisit over the course of a student’s learning journey. Ideas that we could be more exact […]
