Math is FigureOutAble Blog
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.
...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...
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...
I Have, You Need
“I Have, You Need” is a quick but powerful instructional routine to help kids construct the very important numerical relations of partners of 10, 100, and 1,000. To learn more, download a free, one page instruction ...
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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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