by Jennifer Van Blair | Nov 12, 2022 | Engagement, Math
When I taught fifth grade, it always seemed as though it was the first time my students encountered the distributive property of multiplication. This was true of so many concepts I taught in math at the fifth grade level. My students looked at me as if they had never...
by Jennifer Van Blair | Oct 30, 2022 | Engagement, Math
High student engagement in math is the most effective way to make concepts stick. It’s also hard. Sometimes we are told what to teach and how to teach it. The result is showing up to the classroom and opening the book to the current lesson. We teach verbatim and use...
