The Best Way to Teach Rounding Numbers

The Best Way to Teach Rounding Numbers

Number Sense | 1 comment

“Five or higher and you round up.” That’s the saying I hear over and over from students but I have two questions for you. Number one, “do your students really understand that rule and know why it works?” Number two, “do they actually apply that rule correctly?”...
The Best Math Curriculum

The Best Math Curriculum

Teaching Mathematics | 5 comments

Inside of my Facebook group, Build Math Minds, there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of posts all about asking opinions around a certain curriculum or textbook. Basically, wanting to find out if this a good curriculum. Or is this a good textbook series? Today I want to...
The Order Math Facts Should Be Taught

The Order Math Facts Should Be Taught

Fact Fluency | 5 comments

I just recently finished doing some five day trainings all about doing number talks to help kids develop strategies around addition facts, and also multiplication facts. I repeatedly received a particular question, and I thought I’d talk about it today. The...
Number Talks Versus Number Strings

Number Talks Versus Number Strings

Fact Fluency | 0 comments

Number Talks have become quite popular in the last few years, but what most of you call Number Talks, I call Number Strings. Today, I’d like to analyze Number Talks versus Number Strings in our quest to build our math minds so we can build the math minds of our...