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Playful Math Carnival #132
Welcome to the Playful Math Blog Carnival #132It's time for my yearly Playful Math Blog Carnival post. It's where I gather all kinds of great math blog posts from around the internet and share them with
Continue readingGattegno’s Textbook 2: Halving and Doubling Numbers
In my last blog post we briefly mentioned halving and doubling numbers, and I introduced the idea of towers. This blog post will focus on halving, doubling, and tripling; why we do it; how Gattegno uses
Continue readingAssociative & Commutative Properties of Addition and Multiplication: Gattegno Textbook 2
In this blog post I want to discuss both the Associative and Commutative Properties of Addition and Multiplication and how student's learn to intentionally use these properties in Gattegno's Textbook 2. What
Continue readingPlayful Math Education Blog Carnival #122
Welcome to the 122nd Playful Math Education Blog Carnival started by Denise Gaskins. This is the second time I've hosted this carnival. Both times, I've learned a lot and enjoyed both the submissions to
Continue readingDeveloping A Sense of Place Value: Gattegno Textbook 2
Instead of taking a brief stab at all the concepts I covered in my last post regarding Gattegno's Mathematics Textbook 2, I will dedicate a blog post to each concept and show you where Gattegno is going
Continue readingGattegno’s Mathematics Book 2: It’s All Algebra
We are back in the full swing of school. I've gotten a few emails about Gattegno's Mathematics Book 2 - where is he going with this and why are we doing addition and subtraction the way he does it? I thought
Continue readingExhausting Relationships: Learning the Rules of Algebra from the Beginning
I have a confession to make: we didn't do very much math or school over the summer. Last week, we officially started 2nd grade and I have to admit it was hard on P. The summer slide is real. To make things
Continue readingStarting Points: Building Story Problems
I was reading a blog post recently about how 90% of students dislike story problems. Parents ask me about this in email and it came up in my old Facebook group. What do we do about story problems and how
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