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Recently I received an email asking me, “what is the BEST way to teach subtraction?”. My response was, “I’m kind of the wrong person to ask because I don’t think we should teach subtraction strategies.” In this vlog, I explain that statement and talk about...
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The struggle between Quantity and Context is real in a math classroom. Kids want to just focus on the quantities, but we as teachers want them to also focus on the context. In this webinar, Graham Fletcher shows us how to move kids away from being “number...
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Writing numbers correctly is often a struggle for young kids. Most kids can say the numbers but when they go to write them down the way we write numbers doesn’t align with how we say them. This causes confusion in our students and is one of the reasons...
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A group of math bloggers have gotten together to join forces in ‘squashing’ some math misconceptions. For the inaugural blog hop we are tackling the big idea of Place Value. So, read through my thoughts and then at the bottom is a link to another blogger...
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The book study over at Math Coach’s Corner on the book Teaching Numeracy: 9 Critical Habits to Ignite Mathematical Thinking by Margie Pearse and K.M. Walton is in full swing. Below are my thoughts for the week (Critical Habits 3 & 4). If you want to join...
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The teen numbers are hard!! I was reminded of that again today as I picked up my daughter’s Kindergarten Pre-Assessment. They had her write as many numbers as she could, and just like her older brother used to do, she wrote all the teen numbers incorrectly....
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