Think of a fruit...
Whether or not it was an apple, banana, kiwi, watermelon or whatever…. How did you think about it? When asked to think of an apple, most...
Accused of being too PC in the math classroom… A NCTM reflection
Math talk is all the rage in our dialogue about improving student understanding in math classrooms. Getting students to verbalize their...
Connecting First Nation culture and math education
A couple of weeks ago I attended the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in sunny San Francisco. ...
Poetry Month Continued: Book Spine Poetry
In the fall of 2015 the Toronto Blue Jays made the playoffs for the first time in over 20 years, and with this came possibly the most...
Applying the Learning: 38 Days POST New Zealand
The thing with going to another country and immersing oneself in the world of Education is bringing it back to your own country and...
April is Poetry Month (part 1)
Poetry… It's not always on the top of students’ lists of favourite topics to cover in school. Many students (AND Teachers) see poetry as...