Thank you to all the educators who have been visiting my website, using the FREE RESOURCES, requesting more information, and asking really good questions. This post will address some of the questions Iāve received over the last few weeks about motivating students when using student-directed small groups.…
I’m sending a WOO HOO to all the educators who attended the Tabor Rotation sessions at CAMT 2010 in San Antonio this past weekend! Your attendance and enthusiasm indicated your desire to more effectively implement small-group, differentiated instruction in mathematics. Many of you requested the Tabor Rotation Time Line for Elementary School.…
One of the most frequently āhitā blogs Iāve 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 weekā¦so get ready for practical application of area and perimeter of regular and irregular polygonsā¦
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.…
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.…
āIf you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.ā -Albert Einstein
I recently attended a āMomās Night Out.ā 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.…
āPart of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.ā -Mark Twain
Yes, Iām back to blogging on a regular basis again. I wanted to blog. I wrote down lots of great ideas.…
āMemorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense.ā -Anonymous
āIt’s not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.ā -Linda Conway
Our 2nd grader came home with a worksheet a few weeks ago. The worksheet had approximately ten problems about multiplication.…
One of the challenges teachers face when differentiating instruction is how to answer the questions that will arise when you begin to do what is best for all students. Because every student is unique in their understanding of concepts, their level of independence, their interests, and their learning style, what you do for each one must be different.…
āI’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.ā – Maya Angelou
An effectively differentiated lesson clearly indicates that the teacher has anticipated and planned for student diversity (Tomlinson, 1999).…
āWe would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.ā -Vince Lombardi
āGive me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly move the world.ā -Archimedes
I was working with several students helping them develop greater number sense and algebraic thinking.…
