Diversity, Comic Books & Math

Cindy Ticknor January 20, 2020 0 Comments

Thanks to Google’s search image that reminded me that this is not just another day off, I was inspired to read about diversity and comic books to celebrate Dr. King’s birthday. So with a warm cup of tea in hand, I stumbled across the work of Edel Reilly, who creatively asked her students to make […]

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Analogies in Teaching Fractions: Lessons from Hong Kong and Japan

Cindy Ticknor December 2, 2018 0 Comments

In Newton’s Nemesis, I wanted to provide a nice variety of visual and mental images of division with both whole numbers and fractions.  The idea was to help children connect how operations have the same underlying meaning. When children connect the structural elements of whole number division and fraction division, they are reasoning by creating […]

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