July 2013

The worst thing you can say to a student struggling in math

“It’s easy.  Let me help you.” Ok.  Maybe that’s not the worst thing you can say to a student, but it’s up there. Yet, well-intentioned teachers and parents say it all the time. Why? For starters, the problem is easy to us. We don’t understand why a student is struggling with something that seems so …

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Number Talks

In my last post, I talked about the importance of fostering mental math strategies in class. A great resource for how to think about doing this in your class is Sherry Parrish’s book Number Talks: Helping Students Build Mental Math and Computation Strategies, Grades K-5.   I highly recommend taking some time to read the book …

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