Teaching Fractions? Don’t Start With Sets

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Teaching Fractions? Don’t Start With Sets Why students think ¾ + ¾ = 6/8     Below is adapted from the video.  If you want the full context PLUS all the visuals I shared, watch the video. Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists!! Have you ever had a...

The Math Foundations – What Elementary Students Need Before You Ever Have Them Operate with Numbers

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The Math Foundations – What Elementary Students Need Before You Ever Have Them Operate with Numbers   Transcript Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to The Math Foundations – What Elementary Students Need Before You Ever Have Them Operate with...

Subitizing: A Mathematical Foundation

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I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist, and today we’re going to take a look at subitizing in mathematical foundation in our quest to build our math minds so we can build the math minds of our kiddos. Watch the video or read the transcript...

Components of Number Sense in 3rd-5th

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We often hear about how number sense is such a big deal in the early grades of elementary. But it is so important for our upper elementary kiddos as well. Our textbooks, especially in the upper grades, tend to focus on just the skills around numbers. They want kids to...

Components of Number Sense in PreK-2

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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...

Helping Students Use Fingers For Math

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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...