I was worried. How would they handle the gravity of the task before them… As I gazed into the eyes of the 20 kindergarteners in front of me, I played for them the message on my phone. They grinned in excitement as the message played and the math lesson began. Read more…
I saved the day. The math problem had a small detail in it that if my students were not paying attention, it would mess up their work. So I darted around the room and pointed out the detail at the precise moment each group encountered it. No one got confused. Read more…
Preparing elementary teachers to teach math can be daunting. Most noteworthy, is the vast amount of content and the little amount of time to teach. But does it matter what happens in a math methods classroom? In Episode 1707 of the Math Ed Podcast, Sam Otten (@ottensam)talks with math teacher Read more…