Math in my Salt?
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Smoots, Kleins, and … your ‘you’-nit!
I came across this most charming article the other day, about a funny new unit of measurement called the “smoot” and named after Oliver R. Smoot Jr. who was in MIT’s class of 1962 who in 1958 lay his body…
Subtraction Interaction
It is time to expose the secret double life of subtraction. It all comes down to that foundational number sense we work with students to develop as they grow as elementary school mathematicians. We give students the opportunity to build…
“What would you tell a first grader?”
This is what I asked my second graders when reviewing their homework assignment, which included a question asking them to choose one of three basic addition facts and one of three basic subtraction facts that they found interesting or perhaps…