Month: June 2015

Several middle school math teachers have told me that there’s an important distinction between fractions and ratios that students don’t get. When I ...

First, a riddle… Q. How do you shoot a white elephant? A. With a white elephant gun. Q. How do you shoot a blue elephant? A. Paint him white, then shoot h...

There are a lot of trite websites and apps available for teaching elementary education concepts. And then there are the occasional gems. Zip and Abby, from The ...

This gem is timely to my thinking about ratios and units:   It seems to have situated itself broadly enough across the Internet that I don’t know if ...