Topic: Math

If you're hoping to attend some virtual PD this year to lift your practice—and your spirits—we have many options for you! However, we know that decision fatigue is real and too many choices can be overwhelming.

Is high school math failing students? The way math is taught today hasn’t changed much over the years.

Interviewing students—asking them to do math without paper and pencil—can reveal more about how they reason numerically and offer guidance for next-steps.

On September 21st, Marilyn Burns went live on the Heinemann Facebook page to give educators a closer look at Listening to Learn, a new K-5 digital interview tool.

Stories support curiosity and engagement. By creating excitement with our students we make the task of teaching specific grade level math skills easier.

Suggestions for how to have meaningful and important conversations with K–5 students about math from Marilyn Burns.

Our identities determine our willingness to take risks in learning. It makes sense, therefore, for teachers to invest in mentoring students’ math identities.

What is a math pathway? Why didn’t we learn financial literacy in high school? And does everyone need to learn calculus?

For nearly one hundred years the structure of high school mathematics has changed only a little, not because it is working so well, but because there are powerful forces maintaining the status quo.

Seven ways that incorporating children’s literature into mathematics lessons can change the atmosphere, focus, and energy in your math classroom!

Jen Munson details what a math conference is, and how to make conferring with your math students even more effective.

Listening to students, one on one, provides access into their reasoning in a way that’s unique and invaluable. A special blog post from Marilyn Burns.

Catch up on the Marilyn Burns Slow Twitter Chat. Watch video clips of math interviews and share your thinking of what is happening either in the blog comments or on Twitter using #ListeningToLearn.

On this special episode of the Heinemann podcast, we're joined by Lucy Calkins and Marilyn Burns as they explore what we can learn from children when we listen.

On this episode of the Heinemann Podcast, we're bringing together authors Jennifer Serravallo and Marilyn Burns as they explore the intersections between literacy and math in the K-5 classroom.

The Heinemann Podcast is celebrating four years and 200 episodes!

Why are math facts so important? Is fact fluency the same as memorization? Why the concern about attention to math facts during the pandemic?

This week on the podcast we’re excited to play for you a preview of one of Heinemann’s newest audiobooks, In The Moment: Conferring in the Elementary Math Classroom by Jen Munson.