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August 24, 2021

Basketball math! Swimming math!

Following up on my last blog post about counting on the swings, I wanted to share some more videos of me and Katherine counting with our son, Asa. What’s [...]

Posted In : , Early Family Math, Math at Home
August 13, 2021

Swing Math

I’ve been interested enough in Early Family Math to join on as a partner. The goal of the project is make quality resources available to families to [...]

Posted In : , Math at Home
August 4, 2020

Our Remote Curriculum

We recently took on a massive overhaul of our summer/intervention curriculum. Seattle Public Schools wanted to use it for some number of students; this being [...]

Posted In : , Lesson, Math at Home
May 13, 2020

Understanding one-digit multiplication video

This video follows up on the previous blog post, on understanding multiplication. Put in the time now and get this foundational understanding laid right.

Posted In : , Math at Home
May 13, 2020

Understanding Multiplication Part 1

What does “solve 3 x 8” mean? There are actually two crucial pieces of information to parse for this to mean anything. “x” means “groups of” First [...]

Posted In : , Math at Home
May 8, 2020

Understanding subtraction part 2: multi-digit subtraction

I posted a little while ago about the importance of representations in subtraction. Today, I’m sharing a followup video on how to extend that [...]

Posted In : , Math at Home