Andrew Stadel's Blog

In Part 1 of this Problem-Solving series I shared how frequently I am giving students problem-solving tasks in the 2025 school year. If you haven't read/seen the post, then click here and then come ba...

Before the 2025 school year began, I set a goal to give my students more problem-solving tasks. I figured I would start small and go from there, telling myself I will adjust as needed and learn along ...

In my last blog post, I shared my 3 favorite series of Estimation 180 tasks. The Basketball court tasks have video reveals and I love pausing the video reveal for 3 reasons:

1. It closes the Info Gap
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In the video below, I share how I finish day 1 of the school year. I share my second classroom mantra and the card trick activity I use from Peter Liljehdahl's book Building Thinking Classroom in Math...

In the video below, I share one of my two classroom mantras, 5 activities, and how I greet students on the first day of school in order to begin creating a low-risk and high trust classroom environmen...