The Best Graduation Gift #TMWYK

TMWYK | 0 comments

My journey to the graduation gift we are giving high school seniors this year took me a long time to get to.  This graduation gift should actually start way before a kid graduates, but my husband and I are trying in our little way to give kids something I never had:...

Talking Math With Your Kids #TMWYK

Subitizing, TMWYK | 1 comment

Okay, I’m stealing my title for this post from one of my favorite blogs out there; Talking Math With Your Kids.  My kids get A LOT of math talk in our household, more than they get read to.  In most households it is the other way around; more time is spent...

What the Heck is a Rekenrek??

Number Sense, Subitizing | 1 comment

I am preparing for my presentation at the annual US Math Recovery conference and thought it would be a great time to post about one of my favorite math manipulatives for PreK through 2nd grade; the Rekenrek…which just so happens to be the focus of my...

Teaching the Teen Numbers

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The teen numbers are hard!!  I was reminded of that again today as I picked up my daughter’s Kindergarten Pre-Assessment.  They had her write as many numbers as she could, and just like her older brother used to do, she wrote all the teen numbers incorrectly....

Common Core Curriculum is not the same as Common Core Standards

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I could not have said this better!  These thoughts have been mulling around in my brain for a few weeks but didn’t quite have the right way to say it until I read Fawn Nguyen’s interview over at A Math Babe’s blog.  So I’ll start with her...

My First 3 Act Math Tasks

Fractions, Multiplication-Division, Time-Measurement-Data | 6 comments

The other day I had one of the best days I’ve had in a long time out in the schools.  After watching Dan Meyer’s webinar about the 3 Act Math Tasks and then reading everything I could on Dan’s blog as well as many others, I created two of my own 3...

Quick Differentiated Math Fact Assessment

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Right now we are in the midst of the state assessments, yet as I was helping my Kindergarten son get checked into his classroom I was reminded that the assessments teachers do to inform instruction can be quick and easily differentiated.  His teacher decided to put a...