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Wrestling With Math: Approaches To Problem Solving (video)

1, Oct 2009

There are many ways to solve a problem. As great as the solution can be, however, it’s the process where the learning really happens. In our Investigations math series, we talk a lot about using different creative strategies to approach a problem. We compare math solving strategies to a physical toolbox. As great as a [...]

Tech Tool: www.chartle.net

7, May 2009

Report problems to embedding@chartle.net I recently discovered chartle.net through some of the online communities I’m part of with other teachers. It’s yet another reminder of how many simple, free, and useful tools there are online. We’ve collected a lot of data this year. Hey, we do it all day long! How could you use a [...]

Field Tripping, ‘bama Skyping, & Math Inquiring

13, Apr 2009

Looking back at last week, I am really proud of this class. After three quarters together (add a year on top of that for half of the class!), they continue to impress me with their maturity, flexibility, creativity, and skill. The two major focuses of last week were our Skype call to Gadsden, Alabama as [...]

Math As Inquiry and Connecting the 50 States

7, Apr 2009

We continued, today, working on the inquiry-based math projects. It was very exciting to step back and look at a classroom of students who were nearly all engaged in completely different activities and phases of their projects. Hands and brains and paper and computers all mixed up in a wonderful combination of learning and creativity. [...]

Inquiring Minds Want To Know…

6, Apr 2009

Today was an exciting day in Room 10. Students have been working for the past few classes on inquiry-based math projects. As part of our study of statistics and probability, students worked in teams to create a question, hypothesis, procedure for experimenting, and a method of recording and reporting data. It has been very busy, [...]

Happy Square Root Day!

3, Mar 2009

We talked in class this morning about today being Square Root Day: 3-3-09. Square Root Day happens when the numbers for the month and day are the same and multiply to equal the last two digits of the year. For example, 1-1-01 or 2-2-04 or today: 3-3-09. Think of it as 3 x 3 = [...]

Decima-nia!

23, Feb 2009

We played a game in math today that called for students to strategically place decimal cards along a number line. Each student wanted to use as many of the cards they were dealt as possible since the student with the fewest cards left unplayed won. We had some good discussions regarding strategies for comparing and [...]

Poets and Problem Solvers

10, Feb 2009

The past week and a half have been filled with some wonderful student work. We’ve been doing a project-based learning unit on persuasive communication which calls for students working together to create new products and then plan to market them to the public. We had a special guest presenter today from our local cable company [...]


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