“You just listened, so then I could figure it out”
We recently had a lovely post from Sarah Cooper about the importance of taking things slow in the classroom. Today’s post from Tracy Zager is based on the same idea — giving students the space and time...
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A Brief Ode to Blank Paper
Prescriptive worksheets can often cheat children out of real thinking and understanding. Read how Tracy Zager encourages her own children to explore and communicate their mathematical thinking through...
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The majority of elementary school teachers had negative experiences as math students, and many continue to dislike or avoid mathematics as adults. In her inspiring speech at ShadowCon during this...
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Comparisons: A Little Bit More Older
In this fun guest post from Tracy Zager, you can follow along as her daughter tries to figure out just how much older some of her friends are, and as she does, you can get an excellent insight into...
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Now Online: Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had
Tracy invites you on a journey through this most magnificent book of stories and portraits…This book turns on its head the common misconception of mathematics as a black-and-white discipline and of...
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A bold choice for a math methods course
When I wrote Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had, I wrote directly to readers, and I had specific readers in mind: real teachers, in various stages of their careers, who were ready to learn...
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Blogstitute 2017: Which Comes First in the Fall–Norms or Tasks?
In this last post of our Summer Blogstitute series, Tracy Zager, author of Becoming the Math the Teacher You Wish You’d Had, shares her ideas for kicking off the school year in your math classroom...
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