Playlist: Bookmarks
Words Within Words: RAINBOW
How many words can you find within rainbow?
Building “Not Like The Others” Tasks
For TeachersA delightfully ambiguous framework that is quick to prepare, but can last forever!
Addition: 3 Digits Plus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)
Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit addition.
Running A “Notice, Wonder” Lesson
For TeachersUse these puzzling images to build a classroom culture that is comfortable with curiosity, ambiguity, and taking intellectual risks.
How Many Ways: Times Equals Minus
How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?
Calculators, Patterns, and Multiplying By Decimals
Before teaching students the procedure for multiplying with decimals, how much can they intuitively glean from a structured play session with calculators?
Math Curiosity: Magic Squares
Imagine a 3×3 square in which every row, column, and diagonal have the same sum. That’s a magic square!
Describing Author’s Voice
What if… Edgar Allen Poe wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
Showing A Character’s Trait
We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.
Math Curiosity: Finding Primes
Prime numbers are unpredictable! How can we possibly find them all? An Ancient Greek mathematician found one way!
Visualizing Fraction Multiplication
What does it look like to multiply fractions?
Better Stories Part 5: Plot Structure
Ever read a student’s story that was just event after event after event and then a very sudden ending? They lack an understanding of a plot’s structure. With the help of Finding Nemo, I break down how to set up a well-structured plot.