“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction Though I Try, and I Try.”

By Mike Shore, Secondary Representative As you know from previous posts, my daughter is a senior and soon to graduate. So, we are doing all those events that senior parents do: awards night, scholarship night, and everything celebrating their achievements and memories of high school. This dual role as parent and teacher is coming to …

Agents of Change

A post by the Secondary Representative of NHTM. As we move through our teaching career, we have these moments of reflection upon the course our teaching trajectory has taken. That moment might be framed by the question, “Where and what am I doing?” Hopefully we do not find ourselves like the Talking Heads sing, “And …

Same But Different Math: A Powerful Routine for the Math Classroom by Sue Looney

Same But Different Math is a powerful routine for use in math classrooms. In this blog you will learn why this is true and how you can expertly use this routine anytime with your students to develop deep connectivity between mathematical ideas. Some readers may be familiar with this routine, and for others this is …

Jo Boaler Releases Mindset Mathematics Grade 6

Attention all 6th Grade Mathematics teachers. Jo Boaler released her Mindset Mathematics Grade 6 Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas book on January 17, 2019. Her book takes the teachings of her Mathematical Mindsets book and focuses on the big ideas from the 6th grade mathematics curriculum by presenting them through interesting and authentic problem-solving activities. …