Math fact fluency is a big deal in elementary school. But it isn’t just about kids knowing their facts. It’s about kids understanding their facts. Let’s look at how number sense impacts fluency and how it helps kids understand their facts, not just know them.
I’m sharing how Number Routines are not a time to teach, they are a time to listen. Number routines are meant to build number sense or a students’ understanding around numbers. They are not meant to teach a certain concept or to reteach something.
Math is typically seen as a set of isolated skills and procedures for kids to learn in a very sequential order. Usually, problem solving comes after we teach kids those skills and procedures. But I have a guest vlogger today who wants us to change that and she is sharing The Key to Developing Young Math Problem Solvers.
I’m sharing a little bit about student-centered teaching, the true meaning of assess, and what I think is The Best Math Assessment Tool (that actually informs your instruction).
Inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group here, we had a post last month asking for a way to teach subtraction with borrowing to a 2nd grader. So, today we are going to take a look at Why Subtraction With Borrowing is Bad in our quest to Build our own Math Minds so we can Build the Math Minds of our kiddos.
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