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: ...
How Do You Teach Math?
Today I am at a Statewide Math Academy in my home state. Our keynote this morning was by Phil Daro and one thing he said has really resonated with me and I’d like to pose this question to all of you: Do you teach math to help your students get an answer...
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...
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