by Gerald Aungst | Dec 19, 2015 | Education, Math, Professional Development
This post originally appeared in the Education Insider blog on November 19, 2015 To Maine From the Main Line When I was ten years old, my family took a trip to Maine. It was the first time I’d been on an extended car trip out of my home state of...
by Gerald Aungst | Dec 17, 2015 | Math
There’s a lot we can learn about teaching math skills from language arts teachers. For example, think about how we build writing fluency and grammar skills in language arts. Among other things, we certainly do these: Explicitly teach important skills...
by Gerald Aungst | Nov 9, 2015 | Education, Math, Policy
This post first appeared on the Education Insider blog at It’s About Time. Back to the Future I’ve been a cook since I was big enough to kneel on a chair to reach the kitchen table. I remember my father teaching me to measure flour,...
by Gerald Aungst | Nov 8, 2015 | Math, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills
This post first appeared at the Corwin Connect blog. It’s the time of year we celebrate scary things: ghosts, goblins, clowns, pumpkin spice (whatever that is). There is one creepy thing with the power to raise the hairs on necks everywhere and which rarely gets...
by Gerald Aungst | Sep 13, 2015 | Gifted, Math
As both a teacher and administrator, I often heard from parents whose children were exceptionally good at math. “My daughter already knows how to multiply four-digit numbers, so third grade math is too easy for her. She needs to be accelerated.” There’s...
by Gerald Aungst | Aug 20, 2015 | Differentiation, Math, Technology
If you are a math teacher, you’ve likely heard of Photomath. The smartphone app, which debuted in early 2015, allows a student to take a photograph of a mathematical equation and then provides not only the solution to that equation, but the steps...
