In Part 1 of “Integrating Skills Seamlessly”, Frank Cassano and Anya Sturm discussed the importance of explicitly teaching the skill of problem solving, and shared powerful strategies to do that. In this post, they focus on another skill: constructing well-justified and well-organized arguments. I’ve always agreed with this goal, but my approach consisted mostly of…

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12.09.2025

Making Connections – Henri's Math Education Blog

It is not uncommon for would-be curriculum reformers to decry the fact that our schools are organized in different disciplines, and thus different departments. This affects not only curriculum, but also hiring and in general a certain view of education that separates human endeavors into separate, disconnected “siloes”. Sometimes, this complaint leads to the creation…

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12.09.2025

Asilomar Report 2024 – Henri's Math Education Blog

I hadn’t planned on attending the Asilomar conference this year, as both my proposed presentations had been rejected. However I was on the waiting list, and was invited at the last minute, presumably because there was a cancellation. Once again, it was a smaller conference than pre-Covid, and I saw fewer familiar faces among the…

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12.09.2025

Integrating Problem Solving Seamlessly – Henri's Math Education Blog

Frank Cassano and Anya Sturm are math teachers at Marin Academy, an independent high school in San Rafael. They presented on "Integrating Argumentation and Problem-Solving" at the California Math Council Northern Section meeting in Asilomar last December. I quite enjoyed their talk (which I reported on here) and asked them to summarize it as a…

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