The Math Guy

I have been reflecting a lot on Peter Liljedahl's work in the past few months and have been more intentional about implementing his idea...

Here is a task that I made up that I have recently tried which provoked a lot of thinking with students and adults alike. From a set of 12...

Today I was at a school and before going to work with some kindergarten classes, I had a spare 20 minutes to fill. I went into a Grade 4 cla...

Having seen the occasional tweet about using Lego to teach fractions, I was curious as to how effective this might be. Today I tried this fo...

Last week saw the end of the first ever Global Math Week and what a successful week it was: over 2 million teachers and students took part! ...

I'm always on the look out for math problems that can be used with people of any age. These puzzles are usually easy to explain but not ...