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🎄 The 12 Days of Christmas — Math is FigureOutAble Style!
The holidays are here, and at Math is FigureOutAble, we're celebrating by giving back to YOU! Our 12 Days of Christmas was packed with free resources, eBooks, classroom tools, and joyful math learning to help teache...
Math Games That Make You Think
I was minding my own business when I got a ping on Twitter. Another person telling me they had a great game I needed to see. I decided to give it a go. It was good! It was making me think. I hopped on a call with Da...
What is the purpose of math class?
Would you agree with me that many, if not most of us, were in classrooms as students where the purpose of math class was to get answers. We were taught the most straightforward, non-confusing, easy, step-by-step way...
From Rules to Reasoning: How Math Is FigureOutAble Transformed My Teaching
We love hearing from educators who are putting Math Is FigureOutAble into practice in their classrooms. Today, we’re excited to feature a guest post from Erica Foster, Lower School Math Differentiation Specialist, w...
We Need Thinking Classrooms
Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms is full of fantastic work. So much so, I’ve got 4 podcast episodes talking about it. I don’t agree exactly with everything he says, but studying it was very much worth ...
Questioning Questioning
A thing I get asked about is the difference between focusing questions and funneling questions.
You may have already noticed that there’s something off with what I just said.
That’s because when we’re talking abou...
Developing Mathematical Reasoning Part 4
Throughout this series we have discussed each of the stages of the Development of Mathematical Reasoning. In order to identify where students are in their development and to nudge them to more sophisticated ways o...
The Development of Mathematical Reasoning
Check out this exchange I recently had on Twitter. I was discussing frustrations of middle school teachers:
Have you ever felt like this Tweet, that you don’t have the time to teach your content and all of the co...
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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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