Math Terms for Elementary Teachers
Recently, I received an email from someone who had attended a webinar of mine and they asked this question. Now these are terms that are batted around a lot in math education. We hear a lot about procedural fluency, operational sense, conceptual understanding and...
Ways To Make Ten | Teaching Kids to Make 10
I’ve got a request today. I want to ask all educators out there to stop saying make 10. Now, I know that making 10 is a huge deal in elementary school. It is a big, big thing that we need kids to understand. However, the term “make 10” makes it very difficult...
Top Tips For Building Number Sense for Upper Elementary
I always want to try to give some free information for all elementary teachers whether or not you take the online course. If you have been around for a while, you know that I believe that number sense is one of the key missing pieces for a lot of our students. Whether...
Top Tips For Building Number Sense for Early Elementary
Well, as I gear up for online Number Sense 101 course (The Number Sense 101 course has been reworked and is now called The Flexibility Formula) to open up for registration, I always like to provide some free content around number sense so that you can implement number...
How To Use A Number Path
Did you know that number lines should not be used before second grade? Number lines are very prevalent in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. However, it’s actually recommended that in kindergarten and first grade, we instead use number paths. I hope...
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