Math is FigureOutAble Blog
A Year of Growth Through Problem Strings
Guest blog: Susan Smith, Elementary Math Teacher.Â
Today was a good day. A very good day. The kind of day where you feel energized and gratified to be a teacher. Today I had the opportunity to teach a Problem Strin...
Real Math vs. Fake Math: What Meaningful Math Experiences Can Do
Guest blog post by Olivia Despotidis, a South African math educator, a Math is FigureOutAble team member, and a busy mom!
What Is "Fake Math”
There is a moment I look back on often, that I wish I could redo. I ha...
Celebrating the Teachers Who Change How Students See Math
Thank You, Teachers
Teacher Appreciation Week gives us a chance to say something we don’t say often enough: teaching is complex, demanding, and deeply impactful work.Â
At Math is FigureOutAble, we get a front-row ...
I Thought I Wasn’t a Math Person. It Started with Fractions.
I Thought I Wasn't a Math Person (Until I Learned What Math Actually Is)
A guest post by Kristi Gottwalt, Director of Marketing at Math is FigureOutAble
You know people like me. You may be people like me.
For nea...
Emmy Noether: Brilliant, Unpaid, Unstoppable
She Revolutionized Math and Physics Without a Salary: Here's What That Teaches Us About Persistence
Written by the Math is FigureOutAble Team
We're a team of educators and math thinkers who believe persistence, curi...
Factor Puzzles: Helping Math Make Sense
Guest blog post by Susan Smith and Kourtney Peters, Math is Figureoutable team
Feeling Puzzle-y?
Take a look at the puzzle on the left.
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
If you noticed that 3 x 4 gives ...
Math Reimagined
Guest blog: Susan Smith, Elementary Math Teacher.
This post explores a topic that we also feature in our upcoming book, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: The Strategies, Models, and Lessons to Teach the Big Ideas ...
Katherine Johnson: The Human Computer Who Reached the Moon
She Counted Everything. Then She Counted Us Into Space
Written by the Math is FigureOutAble Team
We're a team of educators and math thinkers who believe persistence, curiosity, and good teaching make math FigureOut...
Differentiating Problem Strings for Your Grade Level
Guest blog: Kim Montague, Math is FigureOutAble podcast co-host
Introduction: Why Problem Strings Matter
If you’re a veteran to the Math is FigureOutAble movement, you know that we are obsessed with high impact ro...
Leonhard Euler: The Blind Mathematician Who Saw Everything
Leonhard Euler: The Blind Mathematician Who Saw Everything
He Lost His Vision and Became More Productive: Here's What That Teaches Us About Math
Written by the Math is FigureOutAble Team
We’re a team of educators a...
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Pam Harris
Math Educator
Pam Harris is a mom, a former high school math teacher, a university lecturer, an author, and she wants to change the way we view and teach mathematics. While Pam was teaching high school math, her four children grew and mathematized their world in a way she had never imagined. “I had always bought into the myth that math is a disconnected set of facts to memorize, with rules and procedures to mimic. I now call that fake math.” Pam’s own kids, research, and experiences teaching real math have shown her what it means to mathematize and to support learners in their own journeys. Real math is thinking mathematically, not just mimicking what a teacher does on the board. You can shift your brain from using rote memory to mathematizing. Pam helps teachers make this shift for themselves, and helps teachers teach in a way that supports students to learn real math.
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