K-5 Task Examples
Today I am doing a workshop using Margaret Smith and Mary Kay Stein’s book 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions. There are 5 (plus 0) practices that teachers need to do when planning a lesson that they want to have a good...
K-5 Elaboraborations of Common Core Math Practice Standards
These past few days I have been learning lots at the Teachers Development Group’s Leadership Seminar! I have taken away a lot as a “coach” but there are two things in particular I want to share for teachers, here is the one for today…and...
Pins I Love – Organizing Math Manipulatives
Math manipulatives are a very important part of every math classroom, however they can be a pain to manage and organize. So in this month’s edition of Pins I Love, I am focusing on ways to organize and store your math manipulatives. Before I get into the Pins...
Organizing Your Desktop
Ok, so this post has nothing to do with mathematics. I had so much fun doing this I just had to share. I’m not even sure how I came across this blog post by The Organized Classroom, but I really needed it. The desktop of my computer looks a lot...
Christmas Math Centers
As I stated in my December Read Aloud post, I get to spend time in my son’s kindergarten classroom doing math centers. Here is what we did in the Christmas Math Centers: Memory using Snowmen Subitizing Cards. I used this set of subitizing cards and set it up...
Hundreds Chart Number Path Challenge
Last week I was observing in a 2nd grade classroom that was doing work with a Hundreds Chart. The teacher did a fabulous activity she called the Number Path Challenge. The kids could start on any number but they had to find three different paths to the number 38. ...
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