How do you pump up tackling challenging math problems? By hosting the school problem of the week! Correct responses are entered into a raffle where I draw monthly winners for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. We had a record number of correct entries for October!

I’ve been spending time digging into the statistical reasoning framework from GaDOE and what I have learned is that it is harder than it sounds to get 5th graders to think of statistical q’s that aren’t super contrived…