What CAASPP already? Well…yeah…sorta. If you haven’t already started using the FIABs and IABs freely available at the CAASPP website, then now is a great time to get started! At the end of each chapter that you teach, consider using an FIAB to wrap up the instruction prior to giving your test. Better yet, don’t […]
Let’s start with the TL;DR in hopes that you will actually read this blog post: Moving forward CALCULUS is the lowest math course that can be offered to students entering with a STEM-related academic goal. Do I have your attention? Read on… In the spirit of vertical alignment, I thought I would share some important […]
I was recently talking with several math teachers. We were in agreement that it seems students today are profoundly different from students in the past…or at least how we remember them being in the past. Compared to the “good old days”, the teachers felt students… are coming to their respective grade levels less prepared than […]
As a math coach one of the things I hear the most from upper elementary and middle school teachers is “What do I do with my students who don’t know their multiplication facts?” I hear this from third grade teachers fourth grade teachers fifth grade teachers all the way up to whatever grade level I […]
A collection of random problems that I love…