Building Number Sense, Number Sense, Subitizing, Teaching Mathematics |
One of the hardest parts of teaching mathematics without a textbook is knowing and understanding the progression of mathematical thinking, but it is the most vital part. Also, one of the areas that I talked about earlier in this video series is how essential it is to...
Add-Subtract-Place Value, Building Number Sense, Fact Fluency, Fractions, Multiplication-Division, Subitizing |
Have you ever wondered how to use subitizing in your classroom? Subitizing is the ability to instantly recognize ‘how many’. Helping our students develop subitizing isn’t just for Pre-K to second grade. Even third through fifth grade kiddos need to develop...
Building Number Sense, Number Sense, Subitizing |
The number one concern I hear from teachers is that their students struggle with number sense and they want to build that for their kiddos. However, although we know our kiddos don’t have a good sense of numbers, it’s hard to define what Number Sense is. If you don’t...
Building Number Sense, Subitizing |
Fact Fluency Part 1 Fact Fluency Part 2 Have you ever had a student that when you put up 4 fingers and asked them “How many fingers do I have?” they had to count each finger one-by-one? That happens way too often in early...
Building Number Sense, Fact Fluency |
Have you ever seen a 5th-grade student count on their fingers to add 7 + 8? Or a 6th grader doing repeated addition on their paper to solve 9 x 7? If you haven’t, I can guarantee you’ve heard the stories from the upper grades teachers during staff meetings as they...
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