“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.…
“I’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.” – Maya Angelou
An effectively differentiated lesson clearly indicates that the teacher has anticipated and planned for student diversity (Tomlinson, 1999).…
“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” -Vince Lombardi
“Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly move the world.” -Archimedes
I was working with several students helping them develop greater number sense and algebraic thinking.…
“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.…
“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.…
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” -Leonardo da Vinci
A group of teachers once told me that using small groups in mathematics didn’t meet the needs of all their students.…
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world… The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way … people look at reality, then you can change it.”…
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” -Thomas Henry Huxley
I’ve been receiving a lot of questions about Tabor Rotation (a highly successful, research-based strategy for rigorously differentiating instruction in mathematics) and how to implement the essential components of T.R.…
“There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.” Warren G. Bennis
“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” …
