5 Math Games That Decrease Your Prep Time

Building Number Sense, TMWYK | 1 comment

Many of you know that I am a HUGE proponent of using math games to build your students’ mathematical minds.  However, the biggest complaint is that math games take so much time to prepare and then you have to teach the new game to the kids before they can go off...

Subitize while #TMWYK

Subitizing, TMWYK | 3 comments

I so wish I would have had my camera at the ready this morning at the breakfast table!  I need to take Christopher Danielson’s advice and get Google Glass, but that’s a little out of my price range.  So I’m going to recreate what my kids said using...

Rainbow Loom® Math

TMWYK | 2 comments

Okay, are anyone else’s kids out there OBSESSED with Rainbow Loom® bracelets??? If your kids aren’t, consider yourself lucky in one way and unlucky in another. Consider yourself lucky because you aren’t finding little rubber bands all over your house...

The Best Graduation Gift #TMWYK

TMWYK | 0 comments

My journey to the graduation gift we are giving high school seniors this year took me a long time to get to.  This graduation gift should actually start way before a kid graduates, but my husband and I are trying in our little way to give kids something I never had:...

Talking Math With Your Kids #TMWYK

Subitizing, TMWYK | 1 comment

Okay, I’m stealing my title for this post from one of my favorite blogs out there; Talking Math With Your Kids.  My kids get A LOT of math talk in our household, more than they get read to.  In most households it is the other way around; more time is spent...