About Kathy: Kathy Minas is a 5th grade teacher at a public school in Los Angeles. She is an enthusiastic mathematician … More
Category: 5th Grade
Prime Climb Number String
Last month, I worked in Andrew Eller’s amazing 4th grade classroom in Los Angeles that was beginning an exploration of … More
Differentiating Number Strings: The BandAid Problems
How do you plan a number string for a group of learners who are working on very different skills in … More
Trusting the digits: Developing place value understanding
For several years, across various school communities, a teacher will tell me, “My kids don’t really have a strategy for … More
Biking on the fractional number line . . .
The following post comes from Rafael Quintanilla, a Mathematics Instructional Coach for the Los Angeles Unified School District and a … More
Cars, coffee, and climbing stairs: Inviting students into the story
Here’s another important contribution from our friend and colleague Marcelle Good — a 6th grade teacher at School of the … More
Number Strings 