# fingers magical (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover fingers magical. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Nines Trick](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/the-nines-trick) _2026-07-14 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ And why maybe your fingers are magical ## [The Sixes Trick](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/the-fours-trick) _2026-07-02 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ Why fingers aren't magical ## [Engagement or Compliance?](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/engagement-or-compliance) _2026-06-16 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ And why we actually want both ## [Boxed Into a Corner](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/boxed-into-a-corner) _2026-05-27 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ The reality in many schools right now and what to do about it ## [A Small Shift with a Big Impact](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/a-small-shift-with-a-big-impact) _2026-05-07 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ How one teaching move can transform student understanding ## [Math problems without limits](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/math-problems-without-limits) _2026-04-23 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ And also, it's spring. ## [Why we hate CUBES](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/why-we-hate-cubes) _2026-04-17 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ And what to use instead ## [Thinking Negatively](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/thinking-negatively) _2026-03-24 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ and why we should disregard the rules ## [The Power of Expectations](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/the-power-of-expectations) _2026-03-16 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ How we unintentionally limit students and how to stop ## [Listen to the teachers](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/listen-to-the-teachers) _2026-02-23 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ ...they're the experts in the room! ## [Crush Every Threat in Real Time (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gUhWKk4MXQkW) _2026-02-23 · **Sponsored**_ One agent for real-time detection, exposure tracking, and active defense. ## [Holding Instructional Time Sacred](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/holding-instructional-time-sacred) _2026-01-29 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ Administrators, please just put down the phone ## [How to sneak math into your kid's life](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/how-to-sneak-math-into-your-kids) _2026-01-15 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ Also known as mathematizing the world ## [The Crisis in the American Math Crisis](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/the-crisis-in-the-american-math-crisis) _2025-12-11 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ There’s been a lot of talk recently about “The American Math Crisis” ( here , here , and here , for starters). After a steady rise in standardized test scores from the 1990s to the aughts, scores began declining around 2013. Students aren’t prepared for college! Test scores keep dropping! Grade inflation is everywhere! And don’t get me started on cellphones! (Seriously, don’t get me started on… ## [Help (me help my kid)!](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/help-me-help-my-kid) _2025-12-04 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ “Help!” the text reads. “My son has no idea how to do this problem. How do I help him?” I got this message from one of my friends last night. This was the picture accompanying the message: Not what you were expecting, right? That friend’s son is in second grade with my daughter, and I’ve been getting texts like this from several parent friends since our kids were in kindergarten. These parents are… ## [The Value-Action Gap](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/the-value-action-gap) _2025-11-25 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ Why we have to believe students CAN ## [In Praise of Teachers](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-teachers) _2025-11-19 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ I had planned for this second post to be part 2 of the Cake Method (yes, they have cake in Algebra 2 as well!), but I need to interrupt my own thinking to praise teachers. I saw a reel on Facebook recently ( translation: I’m old ) titled Jobs Teachers Didn’t Sign Up For . It starts with being a technician (copy machine repair person), then moves on to detective (mediating student conflicts),… ## [The Cake Method...No, I'm not talking about baking](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/the-cake-methodno-im-not-talking) _2025-11-12 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ I was in a 6th grade classroom the other day where the teacher had asked the students to find the GCF and LCM of 12 and 24. I peered over students’ shoulders, expecting to see lists of factors of each number or perhaps a prime factorization tree. Instead I saw this: Huh, must be a new way of factoring, I thought. Setting aside my concern that nobody in the class of eighteen recognized right away… ## [Coming soon](https://abbygordon1.substack.com/p/coming-soon) _2025-02-12 · Abby Gordon · Make Math Make Sense_ This is Make Math Make Sense. Subscribe now