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We are so pleased to welcome Dr. Matt Larson to the Math Solutions family as our first Senior Fellow of Professional Learning. Matt has always believed that Professional Learning is the gateway to improving equity, access, and empowerment. He has joined Math Solutions to transform Professional Development for math educators to help students learn the…

Are you interested in using the math workshop model of instruction in your classroom and putting your students at the center of learning? Join @Math_Solutions for our May #MathWorkshopChat on Wednesday, May 30th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. Le’Vada Gray, Director of Professional Learning, and Jennifer Lempp, author of Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided…

Nancy Litton discusses getting your math message out to parents: making the home/school connection

My niece has been thinking about becoming a teacher and asked for my advice. Maia is a talented young woman with many career options and I found myself questioning why she should consider entering a profession which admittedly does not pay well, lacks the prestige it once enjoyed, and requires long hours outside the work…

Howdy fellow educators! We hope you will be joining us in Washington DC for the NCTM conference next week, April 26th-28th . If you’re going, make sure these thought-provoking sessions with our authors and professional learning experts make it onto your schedule. Visit our booth #233 for fun activities and delicious treats, and take a moment…

Join our Math Solutions team of authors and professional learning experts in Washington DC next week at NCSM Annual, April 23rd – 25th! We have a fantastic lineup of informative presentations in store for attendees, including featured sessions with Jennifer Lempp, author of Math Workshop, Sherry Parrish and Ann Dominick, authors of Number Talks: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages and Cathy Seeley, author of Faster…

Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided Math, Learning Stations, Reflection, and More is finally out, and I couldn’t be happier!  I’m not sure if anyone ever sets out with aspirations to write a book.  I know that wasn’t the case for me.  I started out simply wanting to support teachers.  For me, math workshop…

Jennifer Lempp, author of Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided Math, Learning Stations, Reflection, and More, shares her tips for implementing math workshop in the classroom in her Math Workshop Tips blog series.

The fourth graders I’ve been working with had been studying fractions for about a week before I taught this lesson. They were using fraction pieces that they’d each cut for a beginning set of fractions—1 whole, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16. Magnetic versions of their fraction pieces were especially useful for this lesson. (Information about…

Fractions are a critical foundation in mathematics, and at Math Solutions, we are dedicated to providing teachers with the tools they need to promote fraction sense in their classrooms. That’s why we’re taking the opportunity to celebrate Fractions February! We hope you can join in our fractions celebration! Please share your own favorite fractions resources with us…