The Math Guy

 A common misconception I often see is that when you multiply by 10, you just stick a zero on the end of the number, and that multiplying by...

One of the biggest hurdles to mathematical understanding is moving out of additive thinking into multiplicative thinking. There are many rea...

A common way to get students to see that the sum of three angles is 180° is to get them to tear the three angles and rearrange them to creat...

Continuing on from my last post , one of the things I like to do when analysing EQAO results is to look at how students responded to individ...

As part of our analysis of the EQAO data form our schools, I like to move way beyond a simple percentage figure that tells how many students...

One of my favourite things to teach is nets. The way I teach it is very different to the way I was taught it. Basically, I remember having ...

I'm a big fan of the array or 'box' method for multiplication (as  I blogged earlier here. )  A twitter chat with Britnny Schjol...