“As teachers we need to know what interests [students], what they love so as to turn such interests into education growth in knowledge and positive attitudes.” -Bruce Hammonds
Why is an abstract, multi-media piece of art posted in today’s blog about differentiated instruction? Keep reading…
Yesterday, as I began my workday and was pondering how to answer middle school and high school teacher requests, my mind was elsewhere.…
It’s the middle of July and right about now there are thousands of children repeating, “What can I do now? I’m bored.” Here are a few mathematically meaningful and engaging ways to resolve that situation.
Wait until it’s a really HOT day. Crack an egg on a part of the sidewalk that’s in the sun.…
One of the most frequently “hit” blogs I’ve ever posted continues to be, Irregular! Impossible? Important! Area & Perimeter of Irregular Polygons. [https://glennatabor.com/2010/02/irregular-impossible-important-area-perimeter-of-irregular-polygons/]. My summer mission continues to be helping parents make creative linkages between mathematical concepts and every day activities. Our children are switching rooms and the oldest is rearranging her furniture next week…so get ready for practical application of area and perimeter of regular and irregular polygons…
As I was doing more research on irregular polygons by reading several articles, watching videos, and reviewing some of my own activities, I thought about the parents who might want to help lay the foundation for their child to understand complex concepts such as polygons, irregular polygons, area, and perimeter.…
I’m glad the parent blogs have been so well received! If you’re an educator reading this blog you can use all of the ideals with your students in small groups. The concepts explored in today’s blog deal with the prerequisites for counting and are appropriate for Pre-K, K, and 1st grades.…
Yea, parents!!! Due to your overwhelmingly positive (and rapid) response to the parent ideas, I’m posting resources for parents on the FREE RESOURCES page of my web site. Just click on this link and download the first two activities:
https://glennatabor.com/free-resources/
The next blog about number sense will be posted tomorrow.…
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -Albert Einstein
I recently attended a “Mom’s Night Out.” A large group of us decided a few months ago to try and find the best chips and salsa in the area by visiting a restaurant a month.…
“Memorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense.” -Anonymous
“It’s not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.” -Linda Conway
Our 2nd grader came home with a worksheet a few weeks ago. The worksheet had approximately ten problems about multiplication.…
“True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.” -James Russell Lowell
Do any of you remember being thrilled about learning how to simplify fractions? I memorized some rules for how to do it and used these rules to complete worksheets filled with fractions.…
“Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.” -Rudolf Flesch
Today’s Inspiration Blog is also an Activity Blog. If you continue reading you’ll understand why…
Friday was an early release day for all three of my children, so I decided to make Glenna Tabor, educational consultant, take the day off.…
“Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.” -Arthur Miller
“An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
Many of you have counted down the days till you received a much deserved spring break.…
