In early December, I attended the California Math Council Northern Section conference in Asilomar, as I’ve done almost every year since the mid-1980’s. In my last post, I discussed my session on fractions. For various reasons, I only attended two other sessions. The first was by Eric Muller, who works at the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s… Continue reading What belongs in Algebra 2
Month: December 2023
Fractions
Last weekend, I shared my thoughts about teaching fractions with teachers of grades 3-5 at the Asilomar meeting of the California Math Council. After decades of work in high school, and hundreds of presentations to teachers of grades 7-12, this was a bit of a departure from my normal routine, and somewhat anxiety-provoking. The reason… Continue reading Fractions