Use the Floats and Anchors context as well as physical and digital materials to help students understand integer addition and subtraction.
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Construct It! Introducing Integers with Floats and Anchors
Christy Pettis and Aran Glancy
Construct It! The Great Mini-Golf Project
Sandra Vorensky
This fun project capitalizes on students’ lived experiences of playing miniature golf. Through authentic engagement and collaboration with peers, students can create their own visual representations and practical explanations of math concepts.
Beware of “Gaps” in Students’ Fraction Conceptions
Patrick L. Sullivan, Joann E. Barnett, and Kurt Killion
Many students have a dominant part-whole conception of fractions. We examine why this is problematic and explore strategies to move students beyond this limitation.
Building Algebraic Procedures From Concepts: Like Terms
Leah M. Frazee and Adam R. Scharfenberger
This task sequence for adding and subtracting like terms—grounded in the concepts of equivalence and algebra as generalized arithmetic—helps students see connections between concepts and procedures in algebra.
Digital Learning Routes: An Example of Mathematical Modeling
Salomé Martínez, Flavio Guiñez, and Darío González
An online activity provides instructional strategies that can help students engage in mathematical modeling and autonomous learning.
Encouraging Students to LOVE MATH with One-Straight-Cut Letters
Yi-Yin (Winnie) Ko, Connor A. Goodwin, Lauren Ream, and Grace Rebber
One-straight-cut activities engage middle-school students in learning about symmetry and geometric transformations.
GPS: Composing and Decomposing Shapes Across the Grades
Kyle Carpenter and Sarah Roller Dyess
Growing Problem Solvers provides four original, related, classroom-ready mathematical tasks, one for each grade band. Together, these tasks illustrate the trajectory of learners' growth as problem solvers across their years of school mathematics.
Hyperbolic Duckies
Sophia Wood
Modeling exponential growth with crochet.
Making Black Girls Count in Math Education
Nicole M. Joseph
The author shares an experience she had as a mathematics learner, which became the catalyst for her work as a mathematics education researcher. She discusses the issues that Black girls face in our math classrooms and offers potential solutions for partnering with Black girls.
Teaching Is a Journey: Evolving Mathematician
Taajah Felder Witherspoon
Math mentors, challenging math problems, and empowered students are crucial for math growth in both students and educators.
