The Best Math Assessment Tool That Informs Instruction
I get asked a lot, what I recommend for assessing students’ math understanding. The answer is really based upon what you are using it for. I know that we have requirements for the types of math assessments that we have to give, but often those assessments really...
Why Subtraction With Borrowing is Bad
Inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group, we had a post last month asking for a way to teach subtraction with borrowing to a 2nd grader. I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist, and today we are going to take a look at Why Subtraction With Borrowing...
An Often Unused Way to Collaborate Within Your School: Vertical PD Meetings
I got an email a while back from a principal who was concerned about ways to help her staff collaborate. Part of her email said, “As a small school, we only have one teacher per grade level. And thus it can be difficult to have authentic collaboration with our...
Adapting Math Resources to Encourage Student Thinking
As you start to make a change in your teaching to one that allows more student thinking, you quickly notice that your math resources don’t really change with you, and most people don’t have the time or money to get new math materials. I’m Christina...
Allowing Student Thinking by Changing The Way We Grade
Each month I address a hot topic inside the free Build Math Minds Facebook group. For those of you not in the group, or maybe you missed it, I thought I’d share it here as well. In the training, I discussed Allowing Student Thinking in Math by Changing the Way We...
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