Here are a couple of things I’m digging into: Responsive Math Teaching: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/research/responsive-math-teaching Teaching Through Problem Solving: https://lessonresearch.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Characteristics-of-Japanese-Mathematics-Lessons-2.pdf . . .
Hey folks…I recently came across this article about learning multiplication facts. Here is my summary of it with some addition thought sat the end… A 2022 study from the Netherlands compared two methods of practicing multiplication facts: reciting equations displayed on a whiteboard and singing songs practicing with flash cards. Teachers used the same scripted […]
Check this out! Students were randomly assigned to experience 1 of 2 conditions: Productive Failure (PF), in which students collaboratively solved complex problems without any instructional support or scaffolds; or Direct Instruction (DI), in which the teacher provided strong instructional support, scaffolding, and feedback. Findings showed that although PF students generated pictorial representations and methods for solving […]
In this previous post, I proposed a new way of counting things. If you haven’t already read it, please do so. Otherwise this post won’t make much sense. In that post I ended with the following problem… How many rectangles are in this 3-by-4 figure? I promised you an answer to this problem, so here it […]