One of the most frequently âhitâ blogs Iâve 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 weekâŚso get ready for practical application of area and perimeter of regular and irregular polygonsâŚ
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.…
âMaking the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.â    -Elizabeth Stone
Summer is a mixed bag of emotions for blended families. As I boarded a flight a few weeks ago, I watched a mother say goodbye to her children as they flew to spend time with their dad.…
âIf you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.â -Albert Einstein
I recently attended a âMomâs Night Out.â 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.…
âPart of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.â -Mark Twain
Yes, Iâm back to blogging on a regular basis again. I wanted to blog. I wrote down lots of great ideas.…
âMemorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense.â -Anonymous
âIt’s not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.â -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.…
âI’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.â – Maya Angelou
An effectively differentiated lesson clearly indicates that the teacher has anticipated and planned for student diversity (Tomlinson, 1999).…
âWe would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.â -Vince Lombardi
âGive me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly move the world.â -Archimedes
I was working with several students helping them develop greater number sense and algebraic thinking.…
âTrue scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.â -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.…
