Tag: multiplication
Multiplying by Multiples of Ten
This third grade standard has its roots in K-2 standards, and is fundamental to understanding more complex mathematical problems, including multi-digit multiplication and division.
Read More »What Do Turtles Have to Do with Multiplication?
When teachers (and other well-meaning adults) can’t explain something in a way that students can understand, sometimes they resort to cute tricks, gimmicks, and shortcuts.
Read More »You’ll Never Have a Multiplication Unit in Life
Often, we teach math skills in partitioned silos, inadvertently teaching our students to compartmentalize their thoughts, effectively hampering/shutting off their critical-thinking and ability to reason.
Read More »Teach the Math Behind the Methods
Let me start off with a confession: when I was a student, I had no idea what I was doing in math. Come to think of it, I don’t think many of my peers understood what was going…
Read More »It’s Time to Do Away with Timed Tests and Times Tables
The way Americans have traditionally learned math can be likened to cooking a Betty Crocker cake. I learned math as a set of steps to take—rules and facts to be memorized—a recipe to follow.
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