A Batch of Cookies

A Batch of Cookies

—by Cheryl Leung, Golden Apple Fellow—   The aroma of freshly baking cookies filled the kitchen. The timer buzzed and I reached into the heat of the oven to pull out a pan of giant chocolate chip cookies. As I placed them on a rack on the counter to...
A Peek into PT – A Math Activity

A Peek into PT – A Math Activity

—by Cheryl Leung, Golden Apple Fellow— “When will I ever use this?” Instead of giving students a litany of ways they will use math in the real world, it can sometimes be more powerful to let them actually experience how math comes into play in very real...
Story – A Tool for Making Math Concrete

Story – A Tool for Making Math Concrete

—by Cheryl Leung, Golden Apple Fellow— There is something incredibly powerful about the idea of story as a teaching device. It brings an idea to life. It makes an abstraction become concrete and accessible. The idea becomes something real and tangible to a...