Building Number Sense, Number Sense, Teaching Mathematics |
Number of the day worksheets or activities are very popular in elementary schools, however many of them are boring, take up a lot of time, and don’t build powerful mathematical ideas during that time. They are typically focused on number skills. For instance, one of...
Fractions, Number Sense, Teaching Mathematics |
Today we’re going to talk about How to Build Fraction Sense in the Elementary Grades. Operating with fractions is what most textbooks focus on. But in order to understand the operations, we first need to develop fraction sense. I’m Christina Tondevold, The...
Multiplication-Division |
Every month inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group, we watch out for a hot topic. Something that sparked a lively debate, a lot of comments, some unsureness or anything that might be interesting to dive a little bit deeper into. Our hot topic this month inside of...