Math to the 7th Power

When possible, I like to design an exploration activity for the first day of each new unit. The purpose of these explorations is to help st...

I think I finally have a workable system for allowing students to leave class for emergencies, while at the same time rewarding students who...

I am teaching dividing fractions now and wanted to be clear in my own mind about the differences between these two ways of thinking about...

This  Factors and Multiples Puzzle from NRICH was a perfect way to start the school year with my sixth grade students. It is one of t...

Surveys are a great way for students to practice collecting data and then making sense of that data by create a graph to display the data an...

I created these pictures to give my students the opportunity to explore the areas of triangles, parallelograms and trapezoids in reference ...

I love to show this  video  of Laso Schaller's world record jump of 58.8 meters in Maggia, Switzerland. I use it when we start our unit...