3 Act Math Tasks, Add-Subtract-Place Value |
The struggle between Quantity and Context is real in a math classroom. Kids want to just focus on the quantities, but we as teachers want them to also focus on the context. In this webinar, Graham Fletcher shows us how to move kids away from being “number...
Number Sense, Subitizing |
https://vimeo.com/192701365 Subitizing is the ability to instantly recognize how many in a set without counting. This video describes 5 Evergreen games that you can use to help build your students’ subitizing abilities. Watch the video and then complete the...
Building Number Sense, Subitizing |
Fact Fluency Part 1 Fact Fluency Part 2 Have you ever had a student that when you put up 4 fingers and asked them “How many fingers do I have?” they had to count each finger one-by-one? That happens way too often in early...
Building Number Sense, Fact Fluency |
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...
Common Core, Math PD Books |
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...
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