Nathan Kraft's Blog

I'm trying to find more ways to get students writing in math. I know that the process of writing helps clarify and consolidate thoughts....

I've always been a little bothered by how textbooks (and presumably, teachers) explain subtracting integers on a number line. Here's...

                For some time, I’ve been considering a new approach to teaching mean absolute deviation (MAD). This is a new concept for ...

The other day, I came across this website that tests your ability to remember digits. I thought it was interesting that, according to ...

The other day, I was checking students' work on mean, median, and mode. One of the problems involved finding out what grade you would ne...

Warm-ups last year: I would display four or five review problems on the Smartboard for students to work through as I took attendance. I wo...

A few weeks ago, I blogged about how I was going to stop putting grades on quizzes. This decision was heavily influenced by Dylan Wiliam...