What we did last Saturday

Last Saturday a nice crowd joined me for a short accordion workshop, the first of what I hope will be a few months of these free, mini workshops to give us all some more practice with accordion folds. The time was so short and it went so fast that it almost seemed like it didn't…

Endless Accordion

I'm once again revisiting accordions and number lines, because they are both  infinity fun. What I've attempted to do here is to create a classroom friendly accordion book whose pages are pockets which can contain changing content, in this case a variety of number lines. What makes this project classroom friendly is that it is…

Pre-K through Seventh Grade

Tonight I'm finishing up gathering supplies for the first day of what is always my most challenging, and most satisfying, school visit of the my teaching-artist season. I have been visiting schools in the Adirondacks for many years, but I have spent the most time in this one particular school. I get to work with…

Fractions / Accordion Book

Here's the rest of what I started in my last post about this book with the narrow accordion spine.  What I like about combining this structure with fractions is that it makes a concrete (ok, paper) connection  between the relationship of different "families" of fractions to each other.  For instance, just by looking at the…