Today, I uploaded a new video on YouTube that condenses all the research behind my math mystery comic book series,…
One of the most common reasons children struggle when learning fraction division is because they haven’t fully developed their understanding…
With more than 10 days to go, our fundraising has already guaranteed at least 500 copies of Newton’s Nemesis will…
There are many intriguing ways fraction division can be interpreted. The most common are measurement and partitive, but there are more. No wonder it’s so challenging to teach!
The beta test results for Newton’s Nemesis No. 1 are in, and I am thrilled! The teachers and children loved…
As I developed the story for Newton’s Nemesis, I wanted the underlying narrative to reinforce growth mindset, or more specifically,…
The other day, a math teacher sent me a lovely compliment about Newton’s Nemesis and asked if I knew much about how students with dyscalculia
In Newton’s Nemesis, I wanted to provide a nice variety of visual and mental images of division with both whole…
I was telling a math teacher friend about the comic book series I was developing about teaching fraction division, which…
In Newton’s Nemesis, I created Theo’s precocious little sister Leah not only because I was like that to my older sister (yes, I regret that a little bit now) but because I wanted to connect division with whole numbers and fractions. There is some evidence that the difficulties with fraction division are rooted in understanding division…