Last week I had the privilege of attending the NCTM International Conference in Boston. It was a great time to catch up with old friends, such as Kay Wohlhuter from UMD who traveled to India five years ago with Johnny and Carolyn Lott - who I also got to catch up with in the author signing table at the NCTM booth. And the highlight of my time in the NCTM booth was meeting with Okta! Check out the … [Read more...]

I just returned from NCTM Boston. What a great week! I got to catch up with a lot of old friends and made several new ones as well. My co-author, Leslie Texas, and I did a session on one of our strategies from our book series What's My Move: A Kinesthetic Multisensory Approach to Graphing - (although in the book series we call it Walk This Way). During the session I used the term functionally … [Read more...]

While discussing statistics, particularly the three basic measures of central tendency with some teachers recently I got the ubiquitous quick definitions of “most” for mode, “middle” for median, and “average” for mean. Upon probing with questions further the teachers soon began to realize that in our want to make things “easier” for our students we often allow too much leniency with the language … [Read more...]

Measurement is a topic that many students often struggle with largely in part because measurement is experiential. Students must have opportunities to build landmarks about measurements. Reading a ruler, measuring with a ruler, and understanding fractions are all connected and work together very well in helping give fractions a context while offering students an opportunity to build a deeper … [Read more...]