The “NEW” way to do math “via Common Core” should make you mad!!!
Are you upset with this “new way” they are doing math now days in school? If so, you really should be upset about the way you were taught math when you were in school!!! I sure am, and the teachers and college students I work with are as...
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...
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