by Vanessa Cerrahoglu and 1 more | Jul 6, 2022 | Grades 6–8, Grades 9–12, Professional Learning
By Vanessa Cerrahoglu and Danielle Seabold, IM Certified® Facilitators Learners have brilliant mathematical ideas. How we teachers use IM 6–12 Math™ impacts how often students and teachers recognize this brilliance. “…[C]urriculum choices matter. But how...
by Mike Henderson | May 24, 2022 | Grades 3–5, Grades K–5, Professional Learning
By Mike Henderson As a former grade 3 teacher, I know first hand how daunting teaching math at this level can be. On top of developing fluency with addition and subtraction within 1,000, students need to learn about new topics like multiplication, division, and...
by Mike Henderson | May 5, 2022 | Grades K–2, Grades K–5
By Mike Henderson Teaching addition and subtraction in grade 2 is a challenging balancing act. As students move from numbers within 100 to numbers within 1,000, they need to use approaches that involve directly representing the quantities they are adding or...
by Kristen Taylor | Feb 17, 2022 | Grades 6–8, Grades 9–12, Grades K–5, Professional Learning
By Dr. Kristen Taylor, IM Certified® Facilitator Math teachers can talk all day about math! We get super excited when we encounter someone else who enjoys these conversations as well. But too many of our students don’t get to experience that joyful discourse,...
by William McCallum and 1 more | Nov 3, 2021 | Grades 3–5, Grades 6–8, Grades 9–12, Grades K–2, Grades K–5, Professional Learning
By William McCallum and Kristin Umland “Math literacy will be a liberation tool for people trying to get out of poverty and the best hope for people trying not to get left behind.” —Bob Moses, 1935–2021 Bob Moses, the civil rights leader and mathematics educator...
