Components of Number Sense in PreK-2

Building Number Sense, Number Sense, Subitizing, Teaching Mathematics | 0 comments

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...

How to Use Subitizing | 5 Different Ways

Add-Subtract-Place Value, Building Number Sense, Fact Fluency, Fractions, Multiplication-Division, Subitizing | 0 comments

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...

What is Number Sense and Why It’s So Essential

Building Number Sense, Number Sense, Subitizing | 15 comments

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...

Fact Fluency Part 3: The Power of Subitizing

Building Number Sense, Subitizing | 4 comments

 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...