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February 17, 2023

The award-winning lesson plan – the Billiard Ball Problem

Essay Submission for Rosenthal Prize, 2022 The Billiard Ball Problem When I first began teaching I felt an urgency to involve my students in mathematical [...]

Posted In : , Lesson, Summer Staircase
April 7, 2022

Forty Faces

There’s a new lesson plan just added to our Free Lesson Library: Forty Faces. This has become a favorite of mine for many reasons, and like 1-2 Nim and [...]

Posted In : , Announcement, Lesson, Summer Staircase
April 5, 2022

Integrity over Fidelity

In the recent, excellent article for EdReports, 3 Common Misconceptions About High Quality Instructional Materials, author Janna Chan makes a distinction [...]

Posted In : , Doing & Thinking Math Classrooms, Pedagogy, Summer Staircase
March 8, 2022

4 Reasons Play and Math Go Together

There’s a huge, untapped possibility to improve math teaching and learning that is more playful and more rigorous than how most of us learned the subject back in the day.

Here’s how I know, and how to make it happen.

Posted In : , Doing & Thinking Math Classrooms, Game, Pedagogy, Summer Staircase
October 10, 2016

Thoughts on story problems

Story problems! They are the great bugaboo of math class, the problems everyone remembers hating, On the other hand, when educators think of “real-world” [...]

Posted In : , Lesson, Math Musings, Problem, Summer Staircase
August 16, 2016

Summer Staircase Retrospective Part 1

We recently wrapped up our most ambitious project ever, and as data on it starts to roll in, I thought I’d take a moment to share. Summer Staircase [...]

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