Subitize while #TMWYK
I so wish I would have had my camera at the ready this morning at the breakfast table! I need to take Christopher Danielson’s advice and get Google Glass, but that’s a little out of my price range. So I’m going to recreate what my kids said using...
Children’s Mathematics – The Book That Changed My Teaching Forever
My journey to become a Recovering Traditionalist started with the book Children’s Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction by Thomas Carpenter et al. So, when I was invited to participate in the blog hop entitled “Math Books That Will Change Your...
K-2 PARCC Content Emphases and Frameworks
I have spent most of this week over in a school district near Portland, OR doing trainings for almost all of their Title 1 Kindergarten through 2nd grade teachers. One of the activities we did together was investigating the Content Emphases (download it at the bottom...
Savvy Subitizing Activity
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Rainbow Loom® Math
Okay, are anyone else’s kids out there OBSESSED with Rainbow Loom® bracelets??? If your kids aren’t, consider yourself lucky in one way and unlucky in another. Consider yourself lucky because you aren’t finding little rubber bands all over your house...
What is the Proper Way to Show Numbers in a Ten Frame?
Ten Frames are amazing! But after I presented today at my State’s Math Academy, I was thinking more about how you fill a ten frame and what reasoning each builds for kids. For instance here are four different ways to show the amount 7 using ten frames: ...
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