Fact Fluency Part 3: The Power of Subitizing

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 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...

Fact Fluency Part 2: Build Number Sense to Build Fact Fluency

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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...

Fact Fluency Part 1:  4 Types of Addition & Multiplication Facts

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Fact Fluency Part 2         Fact Fluency Part 3 As I was looking over my presentation for this week at NCTM and getting sidetracked by checking Tweets about NCSM (which I didn’t get to attend this year), I saw a few tweets about Steven Leinwand and Patsy Kanter’s...

5 Math Games That Decrease Your Prep Time

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Many of you know that I am a HUGE proponent of using math games to build your students’ mathematical minds.  However, the biggest complaint is that math games take so much time to prepare and then you have to teach the new game to the kids before they can go off...

Christmas Math Center Activities 2014

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I love Christmas.  I love it even more now that I have kids of my own.  I love seeing their faces light up on Christmas morning.  But one of my favorite things I get to do now is going into my children’s classrooms the last day before their Christmas break to do...

Number Sense Assessment

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I’ve been working on a few books to give teachers (and parents) activities to help build number sense and develop flexibility with their addition facts.  It is one of my goals for the summer to complete them, but in the meantime I will be posting an activity...