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.…
“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” -Mark Twain
Yes, I’m back to blogging on a regular basis again. I wanted to blog. I wrote down lots of great ideas.…
“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.…
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many, many different (and very long definitions) for the term Differentiating Instruction. The simplest one I’ve ever used is:
“Differentiating instruction means regularly “shaking up” what’s going on in your classroom.”…
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
I was working with a school a few weeks ago as we planned for the remainder of the year. The things we identified, at the beginning of the planning process, were the most challenging topics or concepts that the teachers were going to teach in mathematics.…
“As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. ” -Cokie Roberts
“It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.” -Edgar Watson Howe
I woke up this morning and looked at the stuffed animal my parents brought back from Germany a few years ago.…
“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.…
