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Postscript about the Number Eleven

A comment posted on my previous blog was a Yikes! experience for me. The comment was about one of the ways to make 11 that I included in the book I created for my grandson’s birthday. The comment was a wonderful reminder about how arithmetic, algebra, and geometry connect.

Marilyn BurnsSeptember 23, 2015

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Eleven Things about the Number Eleven

My grandson Jeffrey just turned 11 and I created a book to celebrate his birthday. Now I’m thinking that making books like this might be a good class project for students. Take a look.

Marilyn BurnsSeptember 21, 2015

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Using Children’s Literature to Teach Math

In my early years of teaching, children’s books weren’t typically where I looked for help when planning math lessons. But that has changed. I now rely on children’s books regularly for engaging students with math. Here’s an example.

Marilyn BurnsSeptember 9, 2015

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Helping Students Open Their Minds

Bring an open mind is #1 on a poster of Sara Liebert’s expectations for her fourth grade class. Lynne Zolli used that expectation when introducing a math activity to the students.

Marilyn BurnsAugust 26, 2015

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Four Strikes and You’re Out

Using games has long been standard in my teaching, and for several reasons. Games capture students’ interest and engages them in learning math. They’re ideal when students have extra time. And they’re effective options for the paper-and-pencil practice. Here’s one of my favorites.

Marilyn BurnsAugust 17, 2015

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A Number Line Exploration

Here’s an idea that I was first introduced to about ten years ago by Nicholas Branca, a math educator who contributed profoundly to my thinking about math and teaching. I’ve tried presenting it as a math-in-three-acts investigation.

Marilyn BurnsAugust 13, 2015

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A Mental Math Lesson, Part 2

In my June 2 post, I described how students solved 99 + 17. Actually I described only part of the lesson. Now, in response to a tweet, I explain how I also had students think about one of the important mathematical practices.

Marilyn BurnsAugust 11, 2015

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Goldilocks, the Three Bears, and Teaching Math

I began a back-to-school session for elementary teachers by asking everyone to write an opening sentence for Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The teachers were surprised by the request—the session was supposed to focus on teaching math. What was the connection?

Marilyn BurnsAugust 3, 2015

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A Mental Math Lesson

I asked a class of fourth graders to figure out the answer to 99 + 17 in their heads. In this post, I describe why I chose that problem, include a video of how the lesson unfolded, describe a teaching error I made in a subsequent lesson, and more.

Marilyn BurnsJune 2, 2015

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Word Problems: Don’t Put the Cart Before the Horse

A long-standing instructional practice has been to teach students how to multiply (or add, subtract, or divide) and then, after the students have learned to compute, give them word problems to solve. In this post I present a lesson with a different approach, where word problems become the lead and reason for learning to compute.

Marilyn BurnsMay 20, 2015

Numerical Reasoning

Postscript about the Number Eleven

Eleven Things about the Number Eleven

Using Children’s Literature to Teach Math

Helping Students Open Their Minds

Four Strikes and You’re Out

A Number Line Exploration

A Mental Math Lesson, Part 2

Goldilocks, the Three Bears, and Teaching Math

A Mental Math Lesson

Word Problems: Don’t Put the Cart Before the Horse

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