Laura Ansorena
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Math Education in Millstone Township School District
Recently, Doctor Karen Barry, the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Millstone Township Schools, joined us for an insightful conversation. She…
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Building upon Building Thinking Classrooms
Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics (K-12), by Peter Liljedahl, is a great book. No advertising is needed: every teacher I met in NJ this Sept…
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How to enrich math exercises
Recycling exercises In a recent article, we discussed the nature of problems and their fundamental difference with exercises—more routine tasks.Since…
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What is a problem?
This is how I usually begin my Math PD sessions for elementary and my course to preservice teachers at the university. I simply ask, “What is a proble…
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Understanding Standards: Content, Cluster, Domain, Process and Practice
Let’s think about language. If someone, for instance, were to memorize the entire Spanish dictionary, could they claim to speak Spanish? Clearly not….
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Navigating Changes: A Closer Look at New Jersey’s Revised Mathematics Standards
Table of Contents Picture this: You’re leading a vast corporation, managing numerous branches across the state of New Jersey. One day, you discover a…
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Do you have to know the multiplication tables by heart?
Often, when talking about competency-based learning of mathematics, contrary to more traditional approaches, it is inferred that anything related to m…
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Competency Assessment: Patterns in Two Dimensions Task
Table of contents Assessment of what the students have produced In our daily teaching, we continuously generate, along with the students, favorable si…
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10 Practices for a Problem-Solving Classroom Environment
Here are the 10 practices Would you like to encourage reasoning, critical thinking and the discussion of strategies in the classroom? Download the 10…
Discover Innovamat
Do you want to know Innovamat’s proposal for more competent and manipulative mathematics?
