How to Use Subitizing | 5 Different Ways
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
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
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
“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?”...
The Best Math Curriculum
Inside of my Facebook group, Build Math Minds, there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of posts all about asking opinions around a certain curriculum or textbook. Basically, wanting to find out if this a good curriculum. Or is this a good textbook series? Today I want to...
Teaching Math The Right Way – Part 3: Math Scope & Sequence
This is video 3, the last video in a mini-series I’ve been doing about Are You Teaching Math The Right Way. In this final video, we’re going to delve into a question I get a lot, “What order and how long should we spend on teaching specific math...
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