When I choose children's literature for math lessons, I look for storylines that can be launching pads into rich math experiences.

By engaging in these games and routines, children practice important counting skills and concepts, and they become producers of counting.

Explaining the standard algorithm for addition to a second grader can be confusing for them and can also mask place value understanding.

Whichever grade level you teach, One is a Snail Ten is a Crab is a great resource to connect mathematics to the world around us.

Is It Fair? allows students to explore topics in mathematics, including numbers and operations, probability, and data interpretation.

It’s through lots of experience with counting and decomposing numbers 1-10 that kindergartners build their number sense.

The egg yolk story is just one example of how we see probability and statistics play out in the world around us.

Because data literacy is so important, putting data science at the forefront of math instruction is essential.

Giving our students many opportunities to estimate prepares them for using it in the real world.

I wonder how things would have been different if my teacher had asked us, “What do you notice and wonder about this number that’s leftover?"

We explore how children’s literature can provide story contexts that help make abstract concepts like measurement division relatable.

Learning about our students without judgment or making assumptions can help us see, appreciate, and use the assets they bring to math class.

No matter how your students feel about the Olympics, they will get a kick out of finding the math in their favorite events.

Unlike a typical math lesson where everyone learns the same thing, Math Workshop is a way to structure math time so students have choices.

It's crucial to students’ self-efficacy that we recognize what they do understand and what they can do, rather than what they've done wrong.

Believing in our students has a profound effect on their motivation to learn and is at the heart of differentiation.

Grasping the magnitude of large numbers isn’t easy, yet we expect our students to understand really big numbers early on.

Giving students a measuring task and asking them to think about decisions they have to make when measuring puts them in the driver's seat.

When students play math guessing games, children begin to use the important problem solving skill of guessing and checking.

There are benefits to strategically and intentionally crafting Number Strings so that students can develop big ideas.