(This is somewhat a continuation of my previous post titled “Getting Students to Think and Understand Mathematically”)

As teachers, how do we get students to show their true understanding of a mathematical […]

I love my job ~ educating the children of our future! There’s nothing better than having the opportunity to develop creative lessons and activities that I believe are best for a child’s learning while […]

I am in my first year of teaching at JIS (Jakarta International School) and we are launching our 1-to-1 program this year in grade 6. By next year, all students in grades 6 through 12 will have their own laptop. […]

Climbing the ladder to higher understanding … this is something both me and my students are constantly working on to improve!Attribution Some rights reserved by degreezero2000
The longer I teach, the more I […]

I’m sitting here in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia at the 2011 EARCOS Teacher’s Conference following an all day session on “Visual Thinking and Literacy.”  The premise of the session was that communication occurs just as […]

During this past summer, I took an online class called ” How the Brain Learn Mathematics .” The class was based on David A. Sousa’s book and was offered through Learner’s Edge (a program with several classes, geared towards teachers, taught by teachers). I have recently been extremely interested in how our students’ brains are wired and this class [...]

In the MS mathematics department at JIS, we believe in tiered instruction, challenge by choice , and tiered assessments .. and that is exactly what we offer to every student that walks through our classrooms. We offer one math class at each grade level, but within that class, we offer our students three differentiated levels (green, blue, black) [...]

What does it truly mean to teach/learn in the 21st century? Education has had a complete makeover since I was a student … and even as a teacher, I still feel that I’m a learner in my own classroom. Everyday, I learn something new, usually related to technology. And often times, I am learning the [...]

This is the second year that I have asked my grade 6 students to create a MathCast based on one specific topic that they have learned during the year. It is my favorite project from the year because it’s amazing to watch and listen to these 11 & 12 year old students “teaching”.My plan is [...]

As I begin to explore new ways to teach math lessons with a visual focus in mind, I have created an activity that I am going to attempt to use with my grade 6 students. In this lesson( attached here ), I will present the students with a variety of pictures, starting with faces and then moving [...]

Nowadays, there is so much talk about brain research, and rightly so, since modern technology has discovered so much more than we’ve ever known about “the brain.” I’ve spent some time looking into attending conferences about brain research, but they tend to be generally focused. But what I am really interested in is how the brain [...]

I tried something new this year with my students … World Maths Day ! What a success! I introduced it as something I wanted to try and wanted them to try, but didn’t have much information to provide the students. They continued to ask more and more questions, but to no avail, walked away with no answers from [...]

 I’m starting to think about what I need to pack for my two-week vacation to Vietnam. While there, my husband and I will visit 7 different cities. Some of our plans include  trekking through the hills in the north (Sapa), taking an overnight boat to Halong Bay and eating the scrumptuous crab that they sell right out of their boats, [...]