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Consumer Math for the 21st Century

by admin | Dec 9, 2018 | Math

What Should be Consumer Math? Recently I was looking up consumer math online. Specifically, I was looking for a curriculum that utilized spreadsheets. Not that I exhausted all of the options, but many of the ones I looked at were horribly outdated. So what should be...

Four Activities to Celebrate Halloween in your Math Class by @jmacattak

by erin | Oct 25, 2018 | Advanced, Math

Celebrate Halloween with Fun Math Activities – All Treats, No Tricks A Guest Post by John McGowan, Product Manager, Texthelp At Texthelp, we love Halloween. After all, it gives you the opportunity to take things that are normally scary (spiders, ghosts, clowns)...

Open Middle: Equivalent Fractions Activity

by admin | Oct 21, 2018 | Advanced, DOK, Google, Math, Slides, templates

Kids Do Love Fractions I’m a troublemaker and have started giving busting out math problems at dinner when I’m over at someone’s house or if my kids bring friends over for dinner. Whoa to you if you say to me “I’m not good at math”...

How Many Ways Can You Write 27 + 8?

by admin | Sep 16, 2018 | Google, Math, Slides

How Many Ways Can You Write 27 + 8? Rule, after you find the solution whatever way you want, you have to do it another way. Too often we focus on algorithm procedures rather than number sense or place value. In an age where you can ask the universe “Ok...

What Is Going On In This Graph from the NY Times

by admin | Sep 12, 2018 | Advanced, Google, Math, Resources, Sheets, Slides, templates

Have Students Analyze A Graph The New York Times is putting out an amazing resource for teachers. Every week they are posting a graphic and asking students to determine what information the graph is providing. What an excellent way to have students use real data, to...

Great Ways to Start the Math Year with @joboaler

by admin | Sep 6, 2018 | Math

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