Thank you to all the CAMT participants who attended my morning session on Tabor Rotation–what a FANTASTIC audience!!! I’ll be posting the time line and other requested resources tonight.
I’m at CAMT all day Friday and will be available to answer questions, share ideas, or discuss professional development possibilities.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
âCreative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.â -Rudolf Flesch
Todayâs Inspiration Blog is also an Activity Blog. If you continue reading youâll understand whyâŚ
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.…
âIt takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.â    -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.…
âI have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.â -Leonardo da Vinci
A group of teachers once told me that using small groups in mathematics didnât meet the needs of all their students.…
