November 20, 2019

One of my favorite aspects of teaching is seeing students explore with ideas to solve problems. We have been working on double digit addition. We teach four different ways to solve. The students then use the way that makes sense to them. Eventually they make their way to the common algorithm. Sometimes, a student invents a new way and then we have to try it out with MANY different problems to see if it always works. Most of the time it does not. But, the exploration is amazing! When students take in their own learning - that is a teacher joy. The student above (not my student) has figured out how to do the problems and it always works. He also learned how to use negative numbers. AWESOME!