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• Category: Algebra
  • An Oldie Revisited: The Border Problem
• Category: Algorithms
  • Algorithms Are Not Enough!
• Category: Angle Measurement
  • Teaching about Angles―A Hand-On Approach
• Category: Assessment
  • Solving 100 ÷ 3 Mentally: A Surprise
  • One Lesson, Three Grades, Three Twists
  • Place Value: How to Assess Students’ Understanding
  • A Mental Math Lesson
  • We Ask, We Listen, We Learn
• Category: Books by Marilyn
  • “Student-Centered” vs “Traditional” Math Teaching
• Category: Data
  • Beans and Scoops
  • Chrysanthemum—An Oldie but Goodie
  • Alphabetical Probability
• Category: Decimals
  • When You Multiply by 10, Just Add a Zero? Horrors!?!
  • Teaching Adding Decimals: What If You Give the Answer First?
  • A Decimal Lesson . . . about 13/20 and More
• Category: Division
  • One Lesson, Two Pedagogical Mistakes
  • Preparing and Planning: How I Get Ready for Teaching a Math Lesson
• Category: Estimation
• Category: Fractions
  • What Is 5 Divided by 4? So Many Answers!
  • An Important Teacher Decision: When and When Not to Give the Answer?
  • Fractions on a Number Line
  • Fix It: An Activity for Ordering Fractions
• Category: Games
  • What’s the Longest Number String Possible?
  • Race for 20―A Counting Game for All Ages
  • Riddles That Rhyme (not entirely a math post)
  • One of My All Time Favorite Games
  • Oh No! 99!
  • Multiplication Bingo
  • The Game of Pathways
  • Can You KenKen?
  • Four Strikes and You’re Out
• Category: General Interest
  • What Are Good Math Questions to Ask Students?
  • Can 1/3 + 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so!
  • Using Math Menus: Some Nuts & Bolts
  • When Should and Shouldn’t We Give Answers?
  • Always Try a Problem Before You Assign It
  • Does Changing Subtraction to Addition Make It Easier?
  • A Reponse to Joe Schwartz’s Blog about Algorithms
  • One Children’s Book . . . Different Grade Levels
  • The Equal Sign: What It Really Means
  • Postscript about the Number Eleven
  • Eleven Things about the Number Eleven
  • Using Children’s Literature to Teach Math
  • Helping Students Open Their Minds
  • A Number Line Exploration
  • A Mental Math Lesson, Part 2
  • Goldilocks, the Three Bears, and Teaching Math
  • Why I Tweet
  • The 1–10 Card Investigation
  • Where’s the Math?
  • An Unusual Word Problem: “Dealing in Horses”
  • Yet Another Way to Subtract
  • Another Way to Subtract
  • Word Problems
  • Why I Like Using Open Number Lines (Though I Don’t Like the Name)
  • The Game of 2048
  • Relearning High School Math
  • Connecting Math and Reading
  • Math at the Deli
  • Welcome to My Blog
• Category: Geometry
• Category: Interviews one-on-one
• Category: Math and Literature
• Category: Math Menu
• Category: Math Reasoning Inventory
• Category: Mental Math
• Category: Multiplication
• Category: Number and Operations
  • Word Problems: Don’t Put the Cart Before the Horse
  • A Problem with a Word Problem
• Category: Numerical Reasoning
• Category: Place Value
• Category: Probability
• Category: Problem Solving
• Category: Real World Problems
• Category: Silent Math
• Category: Statistics & Probability
• Category: Subtraction
• Category: Teacher Resource
• Category: Technology
• Category: Tutoring
• Category: Video Clips
• Category: Word Problems