Episode 89 - Understanding Equality

How would the students in your class respond to the following question: What number would you put in the box to make this a true number sentence? 8 + 4 = ▢  + 5 The majority of elementary kids put ‘12’ in the box.  In today’s episode we are talking about the book Thinking Mathematically and what we can learn from it to help our students better understand equality in math.