The Flexibility Formula
In last week’s video, I shared how flexibility is the missing piece to building students’ math fluency. Well, a big question was how do we actually build that flexibility for students? I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist, and today...
The Missing Piece in Math Fluency
Now, everyone inside and even outside of education thinks that kids need to be fluent in math, but our ideas of what that means are not always the same. I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist and today I’m sharing The Missing Piece in Math...
The Best Math Assessment Tool That Informs Instruction
I get asked a lot, what I recommend for assessing students’ math understanding. The answer is really based upon what you are using it for. I know that we have requirements for the types of math assessments that we have to give, but often those assessments really...
Why Subtraction With Borrowing is Bad
Inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group, we had a post last month asking for a way to teach subtraction with borrowing to a 2nd grader. I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist, and today we are going to take a look at Why Subtraction With Borrowing...
Building the Connection Between Addition & Subtraction and Multiplication & Division
In last week’s video, we talked about three ways to help kids who are struggling with subtraction facts. One of the ways was to help them build the connection between addition and subtraction. But that is easier said than done. I’m Christina Tondevold,...
How to make subtraction not so hard
I got an email asking, why do kids struggle with subtraction facts? She said, “they eventually get addition, multiplication, and even division facts, but students continue to struggle with their subtraction facts.” I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering...
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