#Number

Matt Felton-Koestler

Jul 31, 20184 min read

Summer Math: Context Matters

We recently visited Bay Beach Amusement Park while in Wisconsin (it's awesome by the way). Rides there cost between 1-4 tickets and...

Matt Felton-Koestler

Nov 3, 20172 min read

6th Grade Number Talks: Building on "An Honest Mistake"

I've talked about Number Talks before. Recently I've had the chance to do a couple of number talks in a local sixth grade teacher (thanks...

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Matt Felton-Koestler

Sep 28, 20172 min read

90 and 90 is...

Parker has told me that he knows what 90 and 90 is (or sometimes what 70 and 70 is). About. A. Million. Times. Here was our latest...

Matt Felton-Koestler

Sep 28, 20171 min read

How Many Fives in 100?

P: I can count to one hundred by fives. M: Okay, let's hear it. P: 5, 10, 15, 20, ... 100 C: What would come after 100? P: 105 M: I...

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Matt Felton-Koestler

Aug 31, 20172 min read

Number Talks / Dot Cards

On the walk home today Parker was excited to tell me about the number talk they had done in school because he got to share his strategy....

Matt Felton-Koestler

Aug 29, 20175 min read

Reading Each Orange Had 8 Slices

Last night Courtney and Parker were reading Each Orange Had 8 Slices by Paul Giganti, Jr. and illustrated by Donald Crews. They didn't...

Matt Felton-Koestler

Aug 21, 20174 min read

Reading Two Bad Ants

The last time I wrote about connecting math to literacy Parker and I read a "math book"—a book clearly written to illustrate important...

Matt Felton-Koestler

Aug 13, 20172 min read

Playing Too Many Monkeys

We used to play the game Too Many Monkeys a lot, and we still play it sometimes. This was a great game when Parker was still learning to...

Matt Felton-Koestler with Courtney Koestler

Aug 11, 20173 min read

Reading A Remainder of One

Parker and I recently read the book A Remainder of One by Elinor Pinczes and illustrated by Bonnie MacKain. In it there are 25 ants and...