The Math Guy

Spatial Reasoning is such an important component of Math yet it is often overlooked. Too often, Math teaching rushes to abstract symbolic re...

A few years ago I was in the school office when a Grade 12 student (whom I knew as being bright) came in and asked what time her exam began....

"Have you checked your work?" I reckon this is one of the most common questions that teachers ask their students. And it is usual...

As part of one of our Ministry's Numeracy initiatives, we tried out the following task in a Grade 6 classroom.  Find the size of eac...

I made the point in previous posts ( The Study of Patterns  and  Next-Near-Far-Any  ) that algebraic reasoning is based on our ability to no...

Following on from my last post, here are a couple of further examples of bar models being used. The first is in a Grade 6 class and we want...

For me, one of the most important continua in learning Maths is the following: Concrete-Diagrammatic-Symbolic Too often, I feel that Mat...