I can vividly remember the spring of my first year teaching. A very well-intended colleague put a stack of review packets into my mailbox since testing season was just a few weeks away! Sweet!!! I flipped through the pages with confidence and satisfaction as I thought to myself, “My kids know all of this!” Well, so I had thought…

I wish I had a time machine. I would go back and change some of my routines I did in my classroom. Without a doubt, I would modify the way I taught and assessed math fluency. I was an advocate of timed tests and rote learning of math facts. I sat in parent conferences and defended my stance on…

The difference between a classroom with a smooth-running workshop model, and one where students are off task during M.A.T.H. Workshop is simple. In the former classroom…

If you teach middle school math, you probably do some degree of note-taking…

As a teacher, there is so much to do when it comes to setting up the classroom, that it is hard to know where to start! Over the course of my first six years of teaching middle school math, a few of these classroom projects have become staples in my classroom…