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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 second #MathWorkshopChat on Wednesday, January 31st at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. Mary Mitchell, Senior Instructional Designer, and Jennifer Lempp, author of Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided Math,…

Mary Mitchell reviews Math Workshop by Jennifer Lempp, and explains why it is every math teacher’s new best friend.

MDISC authors shine a light on the need for professional learning facilitators to help teachers enable every math student to engage in classroom discourse that is both productive an

We’re celebrating the release of Jennifer Lempp’s Math Workshop with a holiday giveaway! We’re giving away two special prize packs with invaluable resources teachers need to effectively implement math workshop in their classroom. Up for grabs is a copy of Math Workshop, a copy of Math Games, and a Math Talk Moves poster. To enter, just share with…

Jennifer Lempp’s Math Workshop video resource offers a solution for tackling differentiation and supporting all learners’ needs in the math classroom.

In Part 1 of our 3 part #MathWorkshopChat live Twitter series, we discussed how we can use math workshop to address the needs of all students in the math class, and where to find quality resources to fuel productive math workshops. We had a lively discussion with wonderful input from Math Solutions hosts Genni Steele…

Are you interested in using math workshop in your classroom and putting the student at the center of learning? Want to learn more about math workshop and expand your professional learning network? Join @Math_Solutions for our first #MathWorkshopChat on Wednesday, November 29th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. Mary Mitchell, Senior Instructional Designer, and Genni Steele, Director…

How can we get students to reason and make sense of numbers when they learn operations? Math Solutions Professional Learning Specialist Ivan Alba walks ICLE Senior Fellow Weston Kieschnick through some common issues students face when learning mathematics, and how we can help students move beyond digits and see numbers as quantities. Ivan outlines the…

Suzanne H. Chapin, Catherine O’Connor, and Nancy Canavan Anderson Teachers typically are comfortable leading classroom discussions when teaching literature or providing social studies instruction. They value these discussions and rely on them to support students’ learning. However, many teachers aren’t as comfortable making use of classroom discussions for mathematics instruction. In Classroom Discussions: Using Math…

Develop students’ number sense, place value, and deductive reasoning with A Secret Number Quest, a short game that all students will love. The game begins with one player selecting a secret number, which their partner then tries to guess. After each guess, the player with the secret number reveals whether the number guessed shares a…