I get asked a lot what math manipulatives I recommend. So today, I’m going to give you my favorite math manipulative resources for elementary students. Watch the video or read the transcript below: DOWNLOAD PREK-2ND MANIPULATIVES DOWNLOAD 3RD-5TH MANIPULATIVES...
The Concrete Representational Abstract approach to teaching mathematics has a very long history. However, there are a lot of people that don’t know about it. And, I believe the people who do know about it, are probably doing it incorrectly. Watch the video or...
I really hate homework. Even before I had four kids of my own, I knew I didn’t like giving my students homework, but I just couldn’t really pinpoint why. Watch the video or read the transcript below: Now, this is something that I have been thinking about a...
Recently I had a guest on my vlog, Ann Elise Record, who talked about addition and subtraction word problems. Now, anytime people learn about math problem types, one thing that they want to go do is to go right back and teach the problem types to their students. Watch...
In this era of education, we are being told a lot that we need to change our teaching and how the kids learn mathematics. But, has anyone ever really told you why? Today, we have one of my favorite presenters to learn from, Mike Flynn. He is going to be helping us...
The teaching and learning of mathematics is often not very fun, but my guest today is all about helping educators see that play is really the engine of learning. I hope that you will stick around because I have a guest speaker today, Dan Finkel, who is going to talk...
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