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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

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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

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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

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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...

The Best Way to Teach Rounding Numbers

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“Five or higher and you round up.” That’s the saying I hear over and over from students but I have two questions for you. Number one, “do your students really understand that rule and know why it works?” Number two, “do they actually apply that rule correctly?”...

Number Sense for Upper Elementary

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I’ve been getting lots of requests to talk about what number sense looks like for upper grades kiddos, especially upper elementary and even into middle school. I have been talking about these four number relationships that I first discovered through John Van de...