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...]
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...]
Back to School! Time for a Quick Math Snapshot
I have been back to school for a couple of weeks now, the first week is spent setting up rules, procedures, and expectations, along with some games and activities to get to know everyone as well as … [Read more...]
Teacher Tickler File
I am always looking for ways to run my classroom more efficiently. Inspired by this pinterest post of creating a file for each day of the week, I decided I needed to tackle the every growing pile of … [Read more...]