After we learned about money, it's easy and fun to extend that to algebra. My students know that dimes are worth $.10, nickels are worth $.05, and pennies $.01. (At least I hope so.) Anyway I put … [Read more...]
Bright Ideas Blog Hop: Helping Students to Explain Their Answers
Common Core requires students to have a deeper understanding of how math works, so I occasionally ask my students to explain their answers, especially when we are learning from examples together on … [Read more...]
Magic Math Fun using Money (1-3 grade)
Money is a fun and accessible way to teach a lot of math skills. Here are some quick ideas: 1 - Counting dimes and nickels is a simple way to teach adding and subtracting tens and fives. For … [Read more...]
Fact Family Frenzy
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...]
Fact Family Theater
Teaching fact families can be a lot of fun. Like most of my lessons, I like to introduce new topics with setting up a challenge, and fact families are no different. So I start with "Fact Family … [Read more...]