A math tool that I have used for the past six years has been one of the most impactful things I’ve brought into my classroom is counting collections! Have you heard of them? I first learned of counting collections during …
It’s been a few years since I first learned about counting collections during a summer training. We were talking about math in such deep and meaningful ways, trying new strategies, discovering new tools…so much background information about mathematical learning. We …
When I was in school, math wasn’t my favorite subject. Like so many other adults who’ve said this exact same thing, I felt like I wasn’t very good at the computation and problem solving. Now that I’m a teacher, I …
During the summer after my first year in my current district, I was told that I would be going to a 4-day training about math. As you can probably imagine, I wasn’t particularly thrilled about it, but it was mandatory, …
Yesterday we began using Counting Collections in our classroom. I was introduced to this idea at a district PD a week ago that focused on Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) in math. The idea was simple: Get children to use problem-solving …
