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Questions to answer as you get ready for a new school year

By emwadmin

We are coming up on another school year! A time of excitement and apprehension. This is a time to reflect on how to improve your math class and a chance to reinvent. Here are some essential … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everyday Tagged With: data, games, management, manipulatives, math centers, math classroom, math dictionaries, math time, number talks, running records

Fact Family Frenzy

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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...]

Filed Under: Common Core, Everyday Tagged With: common core, emw, evil math wizard, fact families, fact family, games, math, math centers, third grade

Place Value – Foundation for strong math knowledge

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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...]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: emw, evil math wizard, games, math, math centers, place value

The importance of patterns! or it’s time for a Pattern Party!

By emwadmin

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...]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: common core, games, grade 2, grade 3, math, math centers, patterns

Making Cookie Fractions

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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...]

Filed Under: Common Core, Everyday Tagged With: centers, cookies, fractions, games

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