Building the Benchmarks of 5 and 10

Number Sense | 7 comments

My favorite topic is number sense and my favorite number relationship that builds number sense is the Benchmarks of 5 & 10.  Now, I know you really shouldn’t have a favorite, they all are essential (just like all of my kids…but depending upon the day,...

Graham Fletcher: 3 Act Math Tasks Webinar

3 Act Math Tasks, Add-Subtract-Place Value | 10 comments

The struggle between Quantity and Context is real in a math classroom. Kids want to just focus on the quantities, but we as teachers want them to also focus on the context. In this webinar, Graham Fletcher shows us how to move kids away from being “number...

Evergreen Subitizing Games

Number Sense, Subitizing | 0 comments

https://vimeo.com/192701365 Subitizing is the ability to instantly recognize how many in a set without counting.  This video describes 5 Evergreen games that you can use to help build your students’ subitizing abilities.  Watch the video and then complete the...

Fact Fluency Part 3: The Power of Subitizing

Building Number Sense, Subitizing | 4 comments

 Fact Fluency Part 1                        Fact Fluency Part 2 Have you ever had a student that when you put up 4 fingers and asked them “How many fingers do I have?” they had to count each finger one-by-one?  That happens way too often in early...

Fact Fluency Part 2: Build Number Sense to Build Fact Fluency

Building Number Sense, Fact Fluency | 3 comments

Have you ever seen a 5th-grade student count on their fingers to add 7 + 8?  Or a 6th grader doing repeated addition on their paper to solve 9 x 7?  If you haven’t, I can guarantee you’ve heard the stories from the upper grades teachers during staff meetings as they...

5 Ways to Build Math Minds

Number Sense | 3 comments

Last summer I left the job that I had for 7 years and have slowly been transitioning out of it (they kept bringing me back in :).  With that job I was always busy during the summers doing trainings for teachers, but this summer and most of last summer I’ve...

Balancing The Equation

Common Core, Math PD Books | 0 comments

Welcome to my piece of the Balancing The Equation blog hop book study!  If you are just joining in, the blog hop is almost over…however, there are links at the bottom of this post to everything so that you can go back to the posts about the other chapters.  Make...