Schoolchildren in the lower grades spend a lot of time learning that our number system is a place value system based on ten and powers of ten. A daily activity in the second-grade classroom in which I student taught was counting ten small “ones blocks” and replacing them with one larger ten block. Students eventually… Continue reading The Power of Ten

Words. You thought I was going to say “things,” right? as in the song from “The Sound of Music”? No, I’m talking about favorite words. I tell the students that I tutor to make friends with words and to keep track of words they like. I have decided to take my own advice. Recently I… Continue reading These Are a Few of My Favorite