I was quickly converted to task cards after becoming a math teacher and now I can’t imagine teaching without them. Math task cards take center stage in my classroom now. I’m so excited to share with you 10 simple ways math task cards can energize your classroom! [Read more…] about Task Cards in the Middle School Math Classroom
Archives for December 2015
What Hour of Code Taught Me About Teaching Math
During the week of December 7-13 classrooms and organizations around the world will be participating in Hour of Code Events, a basic introduction to coding for students of all ages (to be precise ages 4 to 104, according to their website). To date, over 100 Million students have worked on the activities at Hour of Code. This past summer Rachel and I taught a summer program drawing on the resources from this program. I found it personally entrancing- I didn’t want to stop working on my own coding exercises. I was excited to use it with students as an introduction to computer programming and a great way to ramp up the STEM opportunities for students. What I didn’t expect was to learn a great lesson about teaching and learning.