How To Use The Broken Ruler to Measure Your Students’ Measurement Understanding

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Measurement worksheets often don’t give us a real assessment of whether or not kids can measure. In this vlog post we are going to look at how to use the broken ruler to measure your students’ measurement understanding. Watch the video or read the transcript below....

Teaching Kids to Tell Time Using An Analog Clock

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I’m sure that you’ve heard the stories in the news about some schools getting rid of analog clocks in their testing rooms because it created stress on the students because they can’t tell what time it is when they’re doing their testing. Now,...

Teaching Kids to Tell Time Digitally

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So, how do you say this time? Well, I had a debate that got sparked between my four-year-old and my six-year-old about how to say times like that one. I hope you will stick around, because we’re going to take a look at, teaching kids to tell time digitally in...

How to Teach Multiplication and Division

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How do we teach multiplication and division with understanding?  A friend of mine got ahold of me because she was concerned that her 4th grade daughter was struggling with division.  Once I dug in a bit I realized that her concern was that her daughter didn’t know how...

The Best Way to Develop Kids’ Fact Fluency

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The term “fact fluency” can conjure up lots of different ideas and feelings inside of people. Many people, based upon whether or not they performed well in those fact fluency type assessments, either loved or hated math. It shouldn’t be that way though! Yes,...

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...

Composing And Decomposing Numbers

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Why do kids need to know how to compose and decompose numbers? Composing and decomposing numbers makes math problems so much easier because it helps kids to make numbers friendlier. Today, I would like you to stick around as we investigate the power of composing and...