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...

How to Use Subitizing | 5 Different Ways

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Have you ever wondered how to use subitizing in your classroom? Subitizing is the ability to instantly recognize ‘how many’. Helping our students develop subitizing isn’t just for Pre-K to second grade. Even third through fifth grade kiddos need to develop...

How To Use A Number Path

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Did you know that number lines should not be used before second grade? Number lines are very prevalent in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. However, it’s actually recommended that in kindergarten and first grade, we instead use number paths. I hope...

Top 5 Ways To Use Number Lines In Math

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Number lines are an essential mathematical model. However, if you are anything like me, you didn’t grow up doing math using number lines. So, if we didn’t use it or learn that way, it becomes hard for us to teach it to our students. Today we’re going...

The Best Way to Teach Rounding Numbers

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“Five or higher and you round up.” That’s the saying I hear over and over from students but I have two questions for you. Number one, “do your students really understand that rule and know why it works?” Number two, “do they actually apply that rule correctly?”...