Fact Fluency Part 2: Build Number Sense to Build Fact Fluency

Building Number Sense, Fact Fluency | 3 comments

Have you ever seen a 5th-grade student count on their fingers to add 7 + 8?  Or a 6th grader doing repeated addition on their paper to solve 9 x 7?  If you haven’t, I can guarantee you’ve heard the stories from the upper grades teachers during staff meetings as they...

5 Ways to Build Math Minds

Number Sense | 3 comments

Last summer I left the job that I had for 7 years and have slowly been transitioning out of it (they kept bringing me back in :).  With that job I was always busy during the summers doing trainings for teachers, but this summer and most of last summer I’ve...

Balancing The Equation

Common Core, Math PD Books | 0 comments

Welcome to my piece of the Balancing The Equation blog hop book study!  If you are just joining in, the blog hop is almost over…however, there are links at the bottom of this post to everything so that you can go back to the posts about the other chapters.  Make...

My Evaluation of Prodigy Math

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I get emails a lot from teachers asking me what I think of this program, or that app, etc.  Well, two times in one week I got asked about the math game Prodigy Math.  I hadn’t heard of it, so after the second question I decided to look in to it, especially...

Fact Fluency Part 1:  4 Types of Addition & Multiplication Facts

Building Number Sense | 1 comment

Fact Fluency Part 2         Fact Fluency Part 3 As I was looking over my presentation for this week at NCTM and getting sidetracked by checking Tweets about NCSM (which I didn’t get to attend this year), I saw a few tweets about Steven Leinwand and Patsy Kanter’s...

5 Math Games That Decrease Your Prep Time

Building Number Sense, TMWYK | 1 comment

Many of you know that I am a HUGE proponent of using math games to build your students’ mathematical minds.  However, the biggest complaint is that math games take so much time to prepare and then you have to teach the new game to the kids before they can go off...

How I Got My Daughter to Stop Writing 501 as 5001 in 10 Minutes

Add-Subtract-Place Value | 1 comment

Writing numbers correctly is often a struggle for young kids.  Most kids can say the numbers but when they go to write them down the way we write numbers doesn’t align with how we say them.  This causes confusion in our students and is one of the reasons...