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Read key tips and strategies from Dr. Kreisberg to support families and students, strengthen math skills, and build confidence.

What if we were regularly told only what we don’t do well? How can we expect our students, many who face the same messages, to continue to persevere? What if we transformed our classrooms to strengths-based environments that cultivate the assets that our students bring each and every day? These are the very issues Kobett and Karp will address in this webinar and how by shifting your attention from students’ weaknesses to their strengths you can maximize understanding and turnaround instruction.

Dive deeper into your own math identity, your students' math identity, and how you can make a positive impacts.

This free resource from Productive Math Struggle outlines how teachers can identify what is and isn't productive struggle. 

This toolkit provides activities that you can share with your students' families as an entire set or one activity at a time.

The 'Mine, Yours, and Ours' exercise from Teaching Math at a Distance can be used as a strategy to promote student thinking in mathematics.

Use this activity for worked examples for ratios and proportions. Correctly worked examples and partially solved worked examples benefit students so that they can understand strategy.

This table from The Math Pact, Elementary by Karen S. Karp, Barbara J. Dougherty, and Sarah B. Bush outlines notation in elementary school that needs attention and what they can be replaced with. 

This table from The Math Pact, Middle School by Sarah B. Bush, Karen S. Karp, and Barbara J. Dougherty outlines notation in elementary school that needs attention and what they can be replaced with. 

This table from The Math Pact, High School by Barbara J. Dougherty, Karen S. Karp, and Sarah B. Bush outlines notation in elementary school that needs attention and what they can be replaced with. 

Learn from John SanGiovanni, author of Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding, Grades 3-5, the specific actions that teachers can take to close the gaps in student understanding of mathematics.

This excerpt from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, provides example questions that teachers can use to check for understanding—a crucial aspect of visible learning.