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Estimation General Interest Interviews One-on-One Listening to Learn Mental Math Multiplication Number and Operations Numerical Reasoning

Two Students . . . Two Different Ways of Reasoning

On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, I posted the sixth in my Wednesday Twitter series of video clips from Listening to Learn math interviews. The response to this Tweet amazed me―it received over 100,000 impressions! I was appreciative of the many supportive and insightful replies. Read more.

Marilyn BurnsMay 11, 2021

Division General Interest Interviews One-on-One Mental Math Number and Operations Numerical Reasoning

What is 100 ÷ 3? Why We Ask and What We Learn

Asking students to solve problems mentally, without paper and pencil, is always revealing and often surprising. I thought that asking students to solve 100 ÷ 3 would be sort of a slam dunk. My, was I wrong!

Marilyn BurnsApril 8, 2021

Assessment Division General Interest Interviews One-on-One Mental Math Numerical Reasoning Videos

What Was Jonah Thinking?

I’m often surprised by what I learn when I interview students. Watch this 46-second video clip of Jonah solving 100 ÷ 3. Then read how I used the clip in a lesson with a class of fifth graders, and also read the letters the students wrote to Jonah.

Marilyn BurnsFebruary 18, 2020

Algorithms Decimals General Interest Interviews One-on-One Mental Math Number and Operations Numerical Reasoning Tutoring

Algorithms Are Not Enough!

Last year, I agreed to meet with a friend’s sixth-grade son. Oscar’s math teacher had raised an alarm for my friend and her husband about Oscar’s math progress. They were shocked. Oscar did his homework and was proficient with paper-and-pencil math. What was the problem?

Marilyn BurnsFebruary 19, 2019

Assessment General Interest Interviews One-on-One Number and Operations Place Value Videos

Place Value: How to Assess Students’ Understanding

Place value is one of the most important foundational concepts about our number system. Watch my assessment interviews of second graders and learn how you can find out what your students understand about place value.

Marilyn BurnsJanuary 18, 2016

Assessment General Interest Interviews One-on-One Numerical Reasoning Videos

We Ask, We Listen, We Learn

How much is 12.6 × 10? This is a question from the Math Reasoning Inventory (MRI) decimal assessment. What do you think were the most common incorrect answers given by the more than 7,800 students who figured out the answer in their heads? And what about the boy who answered, “One hundred twenty and thirty-fifths?”

Marilyn BurnsJanuary 5, 2015

Interviews One-on-One

Two Students . . . Two Different Ways of Reasoning

What is 100 ÷ 3? Why We Ask and What We Learn

What Was Jonah Thinking?

Algorithms Are Not Enough!

Place Value: How to Assess Students’ Understanding

We Ask, We Listen, We Learn

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Two Students . . . Two Different Ways of Reasoning

What is 100 ÷ 3? Why We Ask and What We Learn

What Was Jonah Thinking?

Algorithms Are Not Enough!

Place Value: How to Assess Students’ Understanding

We Ask, We Listen, We Learn

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