Number of the Day Activities
Number of the day worksheets or activities are very popular in elementary schools, however many of them are boring, take up a lot of time, and don’t build powerful mathematical ideas during that time. They are typically focused on number skills. For instance, one of...
How to Build Fraction Sense
Textbooks don’t spend enough time building fraction sense with students. In this vlog, I go into how to build fraction sense in your classroom.
The 2022 Virtual Math Summit
The Build Math Minds 2022 Virtual Math Summit is coming soon! The past 5 years, I’ve done Virtual Math Summit in August but this year, I want to do it in February so teachers can take what they learn and implement it on Monday. Here is the list of speakers for 2022.
Cultivating Positive Student Identities
Cultivating positive student identities is a nuanced, but very important matter. Rosalba Serrano joins us today to teach us how to do just that.
Does Multiplication mean ‘Groups of’?
Each month I take a hot topic inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group and dive a little deeper into it via a live video training. This video is from one of the hot topic deep dives I did when a member asked Does Multiplication Mean “Groups of”?
The Power of Ten Frames Throughout All of Elementary
Ten frames are very well known and commonly used in the early grades of elementary school, but they are a powerful tool no matter what grade level you teach in elementary.
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