Recently, I received an email from someone who had attended a webinar of mine and they asked this question. Now these are terms that are batted around a lot in math education. We hear a lot about procedural fluency, operational sense, conceptual understanding and...
I’ve got a request today. I want to ask all educators out there to stop saying make 10. Now, I know that making 10 is a huge deal in elementary school. It is a big, big thing that we need kids to understand. However, the term “make 10” makes it very difficult...
Recently I have had multiple emails from people who follow me, asking, how do they balance the need between building number sense yet keeping up with their pacing guide? Now, I have to tell you that this is an area in education that really irks me. Watch the video or...
I always want to try to give some free information for all elementary teachers whether or not you take the online course. If you have been around for a while, you know that I believe that number sense is one of the key missing pieces for a lot of our students. Whether...
Well, as I gear up for online Number Sense 101 course (The Number Sense 101 course has been reworked and is now called The Flexibility Formula) to open up for registration, I always like to provide some free content around number sense so that you can implement number...
As you start off the school year, I want you to keep in mind what is really important as we’re trying to teach mathematics to our students. Watch the video or read the transcript below: Here are links to products/activities mentioned in this vlog. (Some may be...
Well, it is that time of year again when teachers start to look forward to all of the wonderful testing that they get do in their classroom. Right? Well, unfortunately, testing and doing assessments is just part of teacher life nowadays. However, I am not a big fan of...
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