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Assessment General Interest Number and Operations Numerical Reasoning Videos

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

Number and Operations Numerical Reasoning Real-World Problems Videos Word Problems

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

General Interest Number and Operations Numerical Reasoning Problem Solving Real-World Problems Videos Word Problems

An Unusual Word Problem: “Dealing in Horses”

After I told Steven, the man seated next to me on an airplane, that I was a math teacher, he described the Dealing in Horses problem that he was given at a corporate management training session. The problem has been one of my teaching staples ever since.

Marilyn BurnsApril 28, 2015

General Interest Number and Operations Subtraction Videos

Yet Another Way to Subtract

When a workshop participant raised his hand to offer how he was taught to subtract when he was in elementary school, I was surprised by the process he described. He called it the “trouble-coming method” of subtraction. I hadn’t ever seen it before, and I’ve never seen it since.

Marilyn BurnsApril 14, 2015

General Interest Number and Operations Numerical Reasoning Subtraction Videos

Another Way to Subtract

Here’s another post about subtraction. I’ve long been a fan of having students invent and use their own methods for computing, as long as they can explain why their strategies make sense. Here’s what I learned from Jesús, a fifth grader.

Marilyn BurnsMarch 30, 2015

General Interest Videos Word Problems

Word Problems

Word problems have long been difficult and frustrating for students to solve and for teachers to teach. A colleague recently forwarded an email from a woman looking for resources to help her fourth-grade granddaughter with word problems. I thought for several days about how to offer positive support to both the grandmother and her granddaughter.

Marilyn BurnsMarch 10, 2015

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

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A Mental Math Lesson

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

An Unusual Word Problem: “Dealing in Horses”

Yet Another Way to Subtract

Another Way to Subtract

Word Problems

We Ask, We Listen, We Learn

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A Mental Math Lesson

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

An Unusual Word Problem: “Dealing in Horses”

Yet Another Way to Subtract

Another Way to Subtract

Word Problems

We Ask, We Listen, We Learn

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