by Tom | Oct 10, 2022 | classroom practice, lessons
I had a delightful opportunity to join a planning meeting with a group of teachers from one of the schools we work with in Chicago. The team was working on a lesson for their 8-year old students about interpreting remainders in problem contexts. Here is how the...
by Tom | May 10, 2021 | math topics
One of Chicago’s Lesson Study Leaders, Joshua Lerner, wrote a terrific article in NCTM’s journal Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching in PK-12. It is titled, “Recommendations for Teaching Division with Remainders.” From the introduction:...
by Tom | Jan 25, 2018 | math topics
A grade 4 team was recently considering the following task for a lesson in which they hoped to have students make a connection between fractions and decimals: What would you say about this? I wrote them two emails about it. First email: What would be the purpose of...
by Tom | Mar 21, 2017 | Resources
In response to multiple requests, I have finally written up this guide for facilitating a post-lesson discussion, which you can also find on our resources page. I will say that cultivating a good post-lesson discussion tends to be easiest if the planning team has a...
by Tom | Feb 14, 2017 | Resources
We offer this guide for facilitating a post-lesson discussion. Please take a look, and if you use it, please give us your feedback!
