By Caty Romero, April 2026 What if the reason students struggle in math isn’t because they don’t know what to do…but because they can’t see what’s happening? Too often, students are asked to choose an operation before they truly understand the relationships in a problem. They guess, apply a procedure, and hope it works. But … Continue reading Seeing the Math Before Solving It: A Progression of Bar Models from KG-G6
In most movies and TV shows with teenage characters, we see them talk about how hard math class is, or how they are failing math. It is also common to hear them say "I'm not good at math" or "I'm not a math person." Most scenes show the math teacher writing crazy formulas on the … Continue reading Developing Number Sense in the Early Years
Apps could be an amazing tool for learning. Using technology in general is essential in education to prepare our students for their future careers. We need to acknowledge the fact that technology affects the way we work, play, live and learn today. We can’t pretend smartphones and tablets are not part of our students’ daily … Continue reading Using Apps to Learn Math
By inviting children to solve problems in their own ways, we are initiating them into the community of mathematicians who engage in structuring and modeling their “lived worlds” mathematically. Fosnot and Jacob, 2007 Teaching mathematics through problem solving requires you to think about the types of tasks you pose to students, how you facilitate discourse … Continue reading Teaching Mathematics through Problem Solving- An Upside-Down Approach
Making Sense of Mathematics 