Tag Archives: Math Forum

A Simpler Solution

By Fawn | Published: October 30, 2014

I’m guessing this was about 5 years ago. I was at an all-day workshop when a high school math teacher, sitting next to me, asked about the PoW (from mathforum.org) that I had assigned to my students. I happened to have an extra copy in my backpack and gave it to her. Dad’s Cookies [Problem #2959] Dad bakes some […]

Posted in Problem Solving | Also tagged Dad's Cookies, perseverance, PoW, problem of the week, problem solving | 8 Responses

Giving Feedback to Students

By Fawn | Published: August 30, 2014

I checked out Mathspace because of Dan Meyer’s post. I lasted all of 4 minutes. My answer in part b was no good. I tried again, but still I failed. I didn’t give up. Then I gave up. (Guess it wanted me to type in n = 3 from the beginning. I’m still not sure. But by […]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged EnCoMPASS, feedback, giving feedback, I Notice I Wonder, meaningful feedback, PoW | 11 Responses

First Two Days of School

By Fawn | Published: August 24, 2014

Tomorrow is the day. I’m excited to meet my new Math 6 students — all 71 of them, two classes of 36 and 35. I should know about half of the 33 Math 8 kids because I taught half of them in 6th grade. Then I get a big break in class size with just 9 students in […]

Posted in Course 1 (6th Grade Math), Geometry, Math 8 | Also tagged classroom norms, classroom procedures, first day of school, problem solving, Remind, warm-ups | 26 Responses

Drawing Rectangles Instead of Writing Equations

By Fawn | Published: December 12, 2012

I don’t see dead people but I see rectangles all the time. The first time I saw a multiplication fact, like 3 x 5, as a rectangular array was after I’d graduated from college. And because I was so very late to this game, I thought drawing rectangles must be how everyone else — at least math […]

Posted in General, Problem Solving | Also tagged Married Couples, problem solving, rectangular array, sum of consecutive integers, visual math, work problems | 7 Responses

Making Problem Solving Part of the Math Curriculum

By Fawn | Published: August 4, 2012

In my last post, I wrote: I also want to start them immediately on the weekly Problem Solving (aka PS — our parents call them PMS, haha, such funny parents we have). I might write a post on this because it’s really at the heart of why I love teaching math. So, this is a post about my favorite geeky mathy thingy that […]