The Math Guy

I'm a firm believer that Math games and puzzles offer an excellent opportunity for practising Math. I sometimes wonder if kids these day...

I was in a grade 6 class yesterday and a couple of quick questions really made me understand why students might have some measurement miscon...

In a  previous post  I shared some Math Vines that I have created with my colleagues Chad Richard and Dan Allen. Here are some others we hav...

**Update: I have now created a website with these yohaku puzzles: http://www.yohaku.ca/ Like many folk, I'm a big fan of number puzzle...

I am sometimes concerned that our students' experience of Measurement consists primarily of memorising formulas and conversions at the e...

There is, I believe, a common misconception that Maths is a subject which consists entirely of questions that need to be answered immediatel...

It is no secret that students find division the most difficult of the four operations to understand. I don't just mean the procedure of...