 
							
					
															
					
					 by Susan Jo Russell | Jan 26, 2018 | 
I was watching one of those legal shows on TV the other night. The prosecutor was asking the defendant a version of the same question for the third time. The defendant’s lawyer, getting annoyed, objected: “Asked and answered!” I’ve heard this phrase a hundred times in...				
					 
			
					
											
								 
							
					
															
					
					 by Keith Cochran | Dec 11, 2017 | 
On a recent visit to a school in a small city in the Midwest, Karen and I joined a class of 5th graders as they learned a game in Unit 3 called Roll Around the Clock. In the previous session, students used a clock to find and name fractions and equivalent fractions....				
					 
			
					
											
								 
							
					
															
					
					 by Susan Jo Russell | Oct 2, 2017 | 
Over the last decade, much of my work has been focused on mathematical argument in the elementary classroom. Observing in our collaborating classrooms, I was struck again and again by how teachers supported students to build on each other’s incomplete ideas....