Students are loving a new structure for math learning that PS 29 teachers are trying out this year in several grades! Based on the research of Dr. Peter Liljedahl, author of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, students are working in randomized groups of 2 or 3 to solve problems together on big whiteboards. This structure gives students a chance to collaborate, learn from each other, and move at a pace that works for them and their partners through collections of increasingly challenging problems from our curriculum.

Enjoy these photos from a 4th grade class, working on solving addition problems using the standard algorithm for the first time. Some groups challenged themselves to create the hardest type of addition problem they could imagine - including lots of 9s and digits up to the ten billions place!