Jo boaler math activities

This has become one of our most popular tasks and we are hearing about all sorts of creative adaptations. Some youcubians have made grids of 400 and added dice, others […]

I just finished "How to Learn Math", my first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) with Dr. Jo Boaler, a math education specialist from Stanford University, and author of What's Math got to do With It? I'll be writing more about what I learned in future posts, but wanted to share these links first. Below are some resources that Jo shared for developing number sense from one of her graduate students, Dan Meyer: motion math Conceptua Math Buzz Math ST Math Refraction Link to Maria Anderson's blog…

The Elementary Math Maniac: Creating Mathematical Mindsets

Math talks help students see the flexibility in math and promote a positive attitude toward math. They are a great activity for the first days of school as they offer opportunities for collaboration...

Tweet Last spring when I was doing the Mathematical Mindsets book study, I wrote a lot about rich mathematical tasks that all students can access but that also keep going or growing for students who need more challenge. Since then, I have been on a quest to add more tasks like this to my repertoire and recently I cam across one that I just have to share with the world. I first heard about Yohaku in this month's issue of Teaching Children Mathematics. I was sitting in a waiting room while…

Jo Boaler has started a math revolution that has likely already made its way into your classroom. The Stanford Professor of Mathematics and author of Mathematical Mindsets is the co-founder of YouCubed.org , an organization dedicated to inspiring, educating, and empowering math teachers with

Think Board - Deepening mathematical understanding

This fun place value dice activity is perfect for your math rotations and practice centres. Your students will be motivated and have fun building place value understandings and will improve their ability to recognise and, say BIG numbers. We used a dollar shop pill box and combined it with some educational research by Jo Boaler and created this nifty colour coded dice shaker to generate big numbers. Download the instructions and free printables on our website, and make this brilliant place…

Jo Boaler has started a math revolution that has likely already made its way into your classroom. The Stanford Professor of Mathematics and author of Mathematical Mindsets is the co-founder of YouCubed.org , an organization dedicated to inspiring, educating, and empowering math teachers with