I used to teach fact families in a standard way, thinking to myself that fact families are like a grammar lesson for math. But more recently I have added various games and activities to make learning … [Read more...]
Place Value – Foundation for strong math knowledge
A Place Value Common Core standard, in a variety of digits and numbers, is in every grade from Kindergarten to Fifth grade. So we need to carefully attend to our students understanding of place value. … [Read more...]
The importance of patterns! or it’s time for a Pattern Party!
Common Core is here, politics aside, the foundations and guiding practices make sense to me, as a enthusiastic math teacher. The complete set of math practices is listed here. But the one I like to … [Read more...]
Making Cookie Fractions
Fractions are one of my most favorite topics to teach. I love to combine hands-on activities, real-life challenges, as well as games and math centers. I just did a week worth of fraction activities … [Read more...]
