Helping Students Use Fingers For Math

Add-Subtract-Place Value, Fact Fluency, Multiplication-Division, Subitizing | 0 comments

Should kids be using their fingers in math class? I’m getting ready to do some webinars all about how kids get stuck in that phase where they’re counting on their fingers for addition and skip counting on their fingers for multiplication. Every time I do...

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...

Teaching Math The Right Way – Part 1: Balanced Math Instruction

Fact Fluency | 5 comments

I have a question for you. Are you teaching math right? Well, that is a huge question and could mean so many different things, yet I get asked it a lot. Today I’m going to start a mini-series about “What It Means To Teach Math Right” and the three areas when...

The Order Math Facts Should Be Taught

Fact Fluency | 5 comments

I just recently finished doing some five day trainings all about doing number talks to help kids develop strategies around addition facts, and also multiplication facts. I repeatedly received a particular question, and I thought I’d talk about it today. The...

Number Talks Versus Number Strings

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Number Talks have become quite popular in the last few years, but what most of you call Number Talks, I call Number Strings. Today, I’d like to analyze Number Talks versus Number Strings in our quest to build our math minds so we can build the math minds of our...

Fact Fluency Assessment

Fact Fluency | 27 comments

Fact fluency assessment is so much more than how many answers kids can complete in a minute. Yes, It includes being fast, but it also includes being accurate, getting it correct, and being flexible. Yet we usually only use fact fluency assessment to see how fast and...