Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 45.  Today we are looking at 13 Rules That Expire.

I’ve been guilty of telling my students tips or rules that I thought were helping them get to an answer quicker, because in the past I used to think my job was to help my students get answers.  Now, I see my job of a teacher as helping students make sense and many of those tips had no “sense” behind them. They really were just rules to help my students get an answer.

The article I want to share with you today was published almost 6 years ago but so many of the things mentioned in this article are still being used.  I can honestly say I probably would still be doing many of them if I hadn’t read this article - but once we know better, we do better.

13 Rules That Expire by Karen S. Karp, Sarah B. Bush, and Barbara J. Dougherty forever changed my teaching.  Not only do they share the 13 rules but there is also a section about expired math language that we use and they give alternatives to use instead.  This article is seriously a MUST READ. To give you a glimpse into the article I’d like to share with you just one of the rules today. Get all the info here: buildmathminds.com/45