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Retiring This Blog
I was just looking at the stats for this blog and was amazed to see that I am still getting upwards of 300 views a month. Of course, that is only a tenth of the views I used to get back in this blog’s heyday.
The reality is that I am no longer serving as the elementary mathematics specialist for the Utah State Board of Education. Therefore, I have no right to be writing a blog called Utah…
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Success Stories
I love hearing Success Stories and this is one of the best. I was reading my email on Monday (just like every day) and was blown out of the water by the e-mail I got from Karen Oliver, a teacher in Utah.
As background, I offered Jo Boaler’s MOOC called How to Learn Math for Teachers and Parents for USOE credit three summers ago when the class was brand new and free. Karen was one of the teachers…
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Elementary 3-Act Math Tasks
Elementary 3-Act Math Tasks
Many of you (some of you? Maybe just one of you?) have heard me talk about and/or use one of Dan Meyer’s 3-Act Math Tasks (see them here: http://tinyurl.com/crjulum ). I love those tasks, but most of them are for secondary school math.
Well, when I was in Atlanta in October I met Graham Fletcher, who is a math specialist in a school district in Georgia. He is very active on the Math Twitter…
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All Students Can Learn Mathematics At a High Level
All Students Can Learn Mathematics At a High Level
Our country has a problem with math. Too many people say they are no good at it, were never any good at it, and never will be any good at it. One study, done by Marilyn Burns of Math Solutions, suggested that about 2/3 of American adults have some kind of math phobia. (Math: An American Phobia, Math Solutions, 1998). I’ve seen this phenomenon first hand. When I tell someone I am the Elementary…
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Revised Utah Core State Standards in Elementary Mathematics
Revised Utah Core State Standards in Elementary Mathematics
One more announcement before the big first post of the New Era of Elementary Mathematics Newsletter Blogging Renaissance:
The Utah Core State Standards in Elementary Mathematics have been under a revision process for the last year. They have now been released for a 90-day review. Go to http://schools.utah.gov/CURR/mathelem/Revision.aspx for more information and to give your feedback. There will…
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Apology and Announcement
Apology: To those of you who followed this blog in the past: my abject and sincere apology. I have only posted once in the last 18 months. I got many comments from teachers in my travels around the state that they read the blog, they enjoyed the blog, and they learned from the blog. And then I disappeared. My duties at the office grew exponentially a year ago in August and I had to drop…
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USOE Professional Learning Series
Many of you will (may?) remember that, at the end of the Utah Standards Academy last year we said the Core/Standards Academies were all over, done, never to appear again. While that is true, at least in terms of the four day experience in different locations around the state, we at the USOE have been hard at work designing what is a unique professional learning system for Utah. Here is what it…
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Guest Post - Follow-Up on Homework in Elementary Schools
Guest Post – Follow-Up on Homework in Elementary Schools
After I published the post called “What About Homework” I got an e-mail from a friend who is a principal in Washington County in southeastern Utah. With his permission, I am posting his e-mail here, with emphasis added where needed.
“Very interesting that you should bring up the homework controversy as I read Visible Learning for Teachers by John Hattie (maybe you’re familiar with his work?) and…
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What About Homework?
Back when I was a youngster, lo, these many years ago, homework was the bane of my existence. In fact, I tell people, truthfully, that I only did homework for two classes in high school – Trigonometry and Medieval Literature. That I graduated at all is a miracle. That I got college scholarships is even more of a mystery. Now I believe that homework itself is a mystery. At least in elementary…
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Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics
Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics http://wp.me/s3v1qN-assm
A few weeks ago I attended the annual meeting of the Association of State Supervisors of Education (ASSM), followed by the annual conference of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM). These were amazing meetings and I learned a great deal. At the ASSM meeting, I, with my colleagues who lead mathematics in other states, heard from the likes of Steve Leinwand, Cathy Seeley, Phil…
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Random Comments About Learning Mathematics
Random Comments About Learning Mathematics
I Googled “Math Quotes Story Problems” today and got this:
Accessed at http://www.pinterest.com/pin/200339883394174796/. No, I don’t have a pinterest account. That is just where Google took me. Really.
I Googled story problems for a reason. I went to see a new doctor this morning because my old one either retired or went crazy. I’m not sure which. You know that new doctors ask a lot of questions.…
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Math Journaling Webinar
Just a quick note. Yesterday the Utah State Office of Education and the Utah Education Network hosted a Core Academy in Action Math Webinar on Journaling in Mathematics. It was presented by Tamara Shaw, a former math coach and current elementary teacher in the Weber County School District. The webinar was recorded and is now available along with the PowerPoint Tamara used in her presentation.
Cli…
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Strategies for Addition and Subtraction
Strategies for Addition and Subtraction
“Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.” -Steve Jobs
Sometimes we hear from parents and some teachers that they would love us to go back to teaching math the way they learned it. They say they can’t help their students because the work doesn’t look the same, it’s all in a new language. The kids complain their parents are telling them to do the math in a…
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Equivalent Fractions and the Criss Cross Method
Equivalent Fractions and the Criss Cross Method
I just had two experiences right in a row that disturbed me quite a bit. First, I was watching a video of a third grade teacher in Georgia who was teaching equivalent fractions. Her first mistake was using sets of objects to represent parts of a whole in third grade. In the Utah Core State Standards students don’t use sets to represent fractions until the fourth grade. Why? Because in third grade…
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Place Value Computation Strategies
Place Value Computation Strategies
Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife – what’s the answer to that? ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Once students are fluent in place value they are ready to start using those concepts in computation. The Utah Core Standards are pretty explicit in how computation instruction is sequenced. If you read the standards carefully you will note that they speak of having students use…
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Place Value, or Thank You Hindus and Arabs, or The Beauty of the Base-Ten Numeration System
Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic Number System
I have been doing a lot of thinking about place value…
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