Stop Using Base 10 Blocks to ‘Teach’ the Algorithms!
The book study over at Math Coach’s Corner on the book Teaching Numeracy: 9 Critical Habits to Ignite Mathematical Thinking by Margie Pearse and K.M. Walton is in full swing. Below are my thoughts for the week (Critical Habits 3 & 4). If you want to join...
Card Games to Develop Number Sense
I think almost everyone who teaches early elementary has heard about Make 10 Go Fish to help develop number sense around the benchmark number of 10. But have you heard of Make Teen Go Fish? Towards the end of the school year I got to attend a 2 day workshop by...
Teaching Numeracy – Working Answer Keys
I am partaking in a book study over at the Math Coach’s Corner on the book Teaching Numeracy: 9 Critical Habits to Ignite Mathematical Thinking by Margie Pearse and K.M. Walton. So far we have read the Foreword (by Arthur Hyde), Preface, Introduction and this...
PreK-2 Teachers and NCTM
A few weeks ago I had the great honor of going to the NCTM Headquarters in Virginia to attend the Program Committee Meeting because I get to help plan the NCTM 2015 Regional Conference in Nashville. It was interesting to me for lots of reasons, but two of them are...
Building Number Sense and Fraction Sense While #TMWYK
So this week, two situations arose involving my son’s food and math. One built on some big ideas around Number Sense and the other built on his early Fraction Sense, but both gave me an opportunity to be Talking Math With Your Kids #TMWYK. Scene #1:...Number Sense Assessment
I’ve been working on a few books to give teachers (and parents) activities to help build number sense and develop flexibility with their addition facts. It is one of my goals for the summer to complete them, but in the meantime I will be posting an activity...
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