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Often gets a laugh out of the kids and is a reminder that "correlation ≠ causation"

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Quick note: I am updating this project to make it more engaging and more useful in classrooms. If you are a teacher or a student using this in class, I'd appreciate it if you would shoot me a quick note describing how you use it and what might make it more helpful: vigentyler@gmail.com. You can also email me if you're willing to test out the new features to provide feedback before they are released, or if you just want me to let you know when it is done.

The update will be released in 2024. Thanks! -Tyler

Other spurious things

Something totally different: The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge - a long-form over-the-top article about the history of one specific bridge in Minnesota. Published August 28, 2023.

Discover a correlation: find new correlations. Note from Tyler: This is not working, but I am in the process of fixing it. Shoot me an email if you'd like an update when I fix it.

View the sources of every statistic in the book.

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Quick note: I am updating this project to make it more engaging and more useful in classrooms. If you are a teacher or a student using this in class, I'd appreciate it if you would shoot me a quick note describing how you use it and what might make it more helpful: vigentyler@gmail.com.

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Sign up for a free account to view a list of curated activities that help develop students' mathematical thinking.

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Get students talking about data and how its represented and interpreted through these different graphs.

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Click on a graph for access to the slide deck, as well as additional resources and mathematical & content connections.

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Graphs for the Elementary Classroom - Slow Reveal Graphs

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Click on a graph for access to the slide deck, as well as additional resources and mathematical & content connections. Follow Me Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.

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Quick warm up to get students thinking about Number Sense

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Each day, a new number is given. For each number there are 4 quizzes, A, B, C and D.

accounts can use a random student selector in Number of the Day.

Tip: Use the Page Down key or a presenter remote to move through answers.

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Answer several mathematical questions on the number of the day.

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A curriculum traditionally focusing a lot on problem solving skills and reasoning.

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The Ministry is migrating nzmaths content to Tāhurangi. Relevant and up-to-date teaching resources are being moved to Tāhūrangi (tahurangi.education.govt.nz). When all identified resources have been successfully moved, this website will close. We expect this to be in June 2024. e-ako maths, e-ako Pāngarau, and e-ako PLD 360 will continue to be available.

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3 Part Lessons Focusing on Conceptual Understanding through developing questions, making estimates, using strategies, and so on.

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A resource dedicated to developing students' mathematical reasoning and problem solving skills.

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Enriching mathematics for all learners

A free-to-use collection of mathematics activities, lessons and problems designed to nurture curious, resourceful and confident learners of mathematics. Produced by The University of Cambridge.

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The Nrich Maths Project Cambridge,England. Mathematics resources for children,parents and teachers to enrich learning. Problems,children's solutions,interactivities,games,articles.

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Peter Liljedahl offers insight into how to shift your classroom to a 'Thinking Classroom' rather than an 'I Do, You Do' classroom. A copy is available in Michelle's classroom.

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Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics exudes enthusiasm for
students, how they think, and how those thoughts coalesce into powerful
thinking classrooms. It’s also deeply practical, describing how everything
from the teacher’s questions to the arrangement of the furniture can add to
your students’ learning.

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Great for planning out lessons that encourage thinking and conceptual learning

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Choose your own maths adventure with our interactive tools that allow you to build a custom playlist of inspirational activities!

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YouCubed encourages learning of conceptual Mathematics and Mathematical Mindsets, rather than skill based learning.

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At youcubed, we inspire, educate and empower teachers of mathematics, transforming the latest research on mathematics learning into accessible and practical forms.

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Steve Wyborney has a collection of quick warm ups that help develop students' number sense.

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Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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Over the past 5 years, this blog has seen nearly 3.1 million views. The most popular strategies from the blog all have one thing in common: They include downloadable resources and strategies which can be immediately used in the classroom. They are also free! I'm sometimes asked these two questions:

"Which are the most popular strategies and downloads?"

"Is there a way you could put them in one place?"

Here they are.

Part 1: The Quick List for Easy Access

(See Part 2 for a Deeper Dive.)

Cube Conversations - and the follow-up post 80 Printable Cube Conversations Pages and 4 Instructional Strategies

The Maze Hundreds Chart - and also the post that followed, Strategies for Using the Maze Hundreds Chart

Tiled Area Questions - and the accompanying 3 Powerful Tile Strategies (and 40 New Downloadable Pages).Also note: Primary Tile Questions is part of this series.

More detailed information - AND PICTURES - can be found in Part 2.
Splat!
Two years ago - nearly to the day - I posted the first Splat! lesson. Since that time, I've posted 21 levels on the blog through various posts. The sequence of lessons ranging from very small numbers through algebraic reasoning with multiple variables has proven to be the single most popular concept. There are other versions of Splat! that I have yet to share. Among them, Splat! in Motion and the Rare, Rogue, Red Splat! are in the wings and I look forward to sharing them!
Esti-Mysteries: Estimation Meets Math Mysteries
This concept has been really fun to share. Estimation and a wide range of math concepts are fused together in a very invitational format. The first time you use Esti-Mysteries, you may be amazed at how deep the conversation goes - and at how loud the cheering becomes when you reach The Reveal at the very end of the journey. Your students will ask you for another Esti-Mystery right away.
51 Esti-Mysteries
If it looks like I posted the same thing twice, that's because the original Esti-Mystery post only had 12 Esti-Mysteries. I received so many requests for more Esti-Mysteries, that I decided to write 51 more during the first few months of this school year. I planned to post 3 per week for 17 weeks in a row. The result is that there are a LOT of Esti-Mysteries suitable for many grade levels that can be immediately downloaded and used in class.
The Fraction Splat! Series
The Fraction Splat! Series is one of my favorite resources. Following Splat! the fraction series dives into some much deeper territory and invites students to think about numbers in many different ways.
20 Days of Number Sense and Rich Math Talk (K-12)
The purpose of this series was to create a set of resources that any teacher - at any grade level - could use for 20 days in a row. It's mean to provide rich experiences to students and a rich journey for teachers. While the series contains entirely exclusive content, it draws upon 4 routines found in my blog. Days 1-5 are Estimation Clipboards. Days 6-10 are Splats! Days 11-15 are Esti-Mysteries. Days 16-20 are Cube Conversations. Each of the 20 days is labeled so that it is very easy to find which grade level to use. Any teacher at any grade level can use this single post to have access to 20 days of rich math discourse - and may even discover a new part of their teaching journey just by listening to the insights of the students.
Splat for Google Slides - 40 Lessons
After writing Splat! I heard from many educators who do not have access to PowerPoint. So, I rewrote the series from scratch with a new combination of animations that would make it work in Google Slides. This set is for everyone who has Google Slides and wants to use Splat!
100 Subitizing Slides and 10 Challenge Patterns
This is an all-time favorite resource. The concept is a set of 10 lessons. Each lessons shows a series of quick subitizing images (which also energizes the classroom) then quickly transitions to a challenge dot pattern. It's more than subitizing, and it's more than a dot talk. It's the combination of the two that make this work so well. The 100 slides are set in 10 lessons and there are printables to match the challenge patterns.

Cube Conversations - and the follow-up post 80 Printable Cube Conversations Pages and 4 Instructional Strategies

Cube Conversations is a series in which I feature a 3-D cube structure and then (with a click) allow you to show your students how it could be decomposed usefully. The shape changes colors and surprising groupings appear. Then, with two more clicks, two more examples of how the shape can be decomposed appear before the students. Many of the recognize similarities to how they have decomposed it already. The animations serve as an example as 1 more shape appears and allows the students to decompose it 4 different ways. This is one that you really have to see and experience to detect the full power of how it propels student insights.
The Estimation Clipboard
Estimation has always been near and dear to me. Yet, I've seen so many, many times when students are given ONE thing to estimate (1 jar, 1 image, 1 length of rope) and then they move on to something completely different. The Estimation Clipboard offers something new in that it provides 4 highly similar images in a row. Students estimate, share their reasoning with each other, and eventually see the answer... And then they are given a 2nd image that is similar to the first one. They have a rich context in which to estimate. Then they see a third image - and then a fourth. After you've taught your class the Estimation Clipboard routine, you are very likely to hear even more cheering in the classroom.

The Maze Hundreds Chart - and also the post that followed, Strategies for Using the Maze Hundreds Chart

This interactive hundreds chart allows you to create mazes on the screen in front of your students. Better yet, it allows them to amaze you with their thinking. It's hard to describe exactly how this chart works without showing it in person - or guiding you to the video. I encourage you to take a look at the post, watch the video, and see just how this highly versatile chart works.
The Animated Multiplication Table
This interactive PPT file allows you to see the multiplication table - and many of the relationships that sometimes stay hidden - in many different, vivid ways. Take a look at the video, and you will see what I mean.

Tiled Area Questions - and the accompanying 3 Powerful Tile Strategies (and 40 New Downloadable Pages).Also note: Primary Tile Questions is part of this series.

I was going to make this list show the top 10 pages - but when I saw that one of my all-time favorite strategies wasn't within the list of the top 10 page views on my blog, I knew it needed to be shared again. This strategy can travel into so very deep, very rich, and very colorful territory. I love this strategy so much that I actually wrote 3 blog posts about it.

I am certain that this list will change over time. Some of these posts (like Splat!) have been around for two years, while others (like 51 Esti-Mysteries) have only been around for a handful of months.

Thank you for all of your questions and support. I hope this helps to answer these two questions:

"Which are the most popular strategies and downloads?"

and

"Is there a way you could put them in one place?"

I look forward to reflecting on this post in the future and seeing how it changes. There are many new resources which I'm excited to share very soon!

All my best,

Steve

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A collection of quick math routines to get the mind thinking.

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Book is available in the Staff Resource Library

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Banish math anxiety and give students of all ages a clear roadmap to success

Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler-Stanford researcher, professor of math education, and expert on math learning-has studied why students don't like math and often fail in math classes. She's followed thousands of students through middle and high schools to study how they learn and to find the most effective ways to unleash the math potential in all students.

There is a clear gap between what research has shown to work in teaching math and what happens in schools and at home. This book bridges that gap by turning research findings into practical activities and advice. Boaler translates Carol Dweck's concept of 'mindset' into math teaching and parenting strategies, showing how students can go from self-doubt to strong self-confidence, which is so important to math learning. Boaler reveals the steps that must be taken by schools and parents to improve math education for all. Mathematical Mindsets :

Explains how the brain processes mathematics learning

Reveals how to turn mistakes and struggles into valuable learning experiences

Provides examples of rich mathematical activities to replace rote learning

Explains ways to give students a positive math mindset

Gives examples of how assessment and grading policies need to change to support real understanding

Scores of students hate and fear math, so they end up leaving school without an understanding of basic mathematical concepts. Their evasion and departure hinders math-related pathways and STEM career opportunities. Research has shown very clear methods to change this phenomena, but the information has been confined to research journals-until now. Mathematical Mindsets provides a proven, practical roadmap to mathematics success for any student at any age.

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Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching (Mindset Mathematics)

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Amazon.com: Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching (Mindset Mathematics): 9780470894521: Boaler, Jo, Dweck, Carol: Books

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K-2, 3-5 sections available. Students have to explain why one choice is the better than the other.

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This is Which One Doesn't Belong?, a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. Enjoy!

Which One Doesn't Belong?

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This is Which One Doesn't Belong?, a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. Enjoy!