Math is FigureOutAble Blog
When "Covered" Doesn't Mean Understood: Building Reasoning in Middle School Math
Guest blog post written by Kourtney Peters, former middle school mathematics teacher and current member of the Math is FigureOutAble content team. This blog is adopted from a passage in the book: Developing Mathemat...
Searching for a Better Way
Guest blog post by Susan Smith, a longtime educator who spent her career searching for a better way to teach math. She now shares what she’s learned about helping students build mathematical reasoning, confidence, a...
From Calculator-Dependent to Confident: My Math is a FigureOutAble Story
What does real math confidence actually look like in everyday life? In today’s guest post, Kristi Gottwalt, Director of Sales and Marketing at Math is FigureOutAble, shares how budgeting for a trip to Italy made her...
A Story of Hope: How We Made Math (and Growth) FigureOutAble Together
Guest Post by Charisse Patacsil, Math Coach at Chadwick International
At Chadwick International, Charisse Patacsil has spent the last several years leading a schoolwide journey to transform mathematics teaching and...
She Wrote the World's First Computer Program for a Machine That Didn't Exist Yet
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 FigureOutAble for everyone.
The Woman Who Imagined Computing a C...
How a Borrowed Book Led to an Astronomy Pioneer
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 FigureOutAble for everyone.
The Man Who Calculated His Way Into...
Teaching for Thinking, Not Just Right Answers
Guest blog post by Susan Smith. Susan is a retired math teacher with 34 years of classroom experience. Passionate about mathematizing, she shares practical tips and strategies to make math meaningful for students.
...Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms Wins APEX Grand Prize
We are thrilled to share some exciting news: Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms by Pam Harris has been awarded the prestigious APEX Grand Prize for Publication Excellence.
This recog...
Why We're Obsessed with NumberClub (And Why Your Students Will Be Too)
We want to be upfront about something: Math is FigureOutAble does not often fully endorse products. Pam Harris has spent her career helping teachers move away from the idea that math is something you do to students ...
Alan Turing: He Asked the Questions Nobody Else Thought to Ask
He Imagined a Machine That Could Solve Anything. Then He Built One to Help Win a War. Then the Country He Saved Prosecuted Him.
Written by the Math is FigureOutAble Team We're a team of educators and math thinkers ...
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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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