Teaching Children Not to Be Rude!

…be rude, including Cell Phoney, My Mouth is a Volcano, Teamwork Isn’t My Thing and I Don’t Like to Share, and I Want to Do it My Way! She enjoys…

How to Form Cooperative Learning Teams

…in the same way. Assign a team number to each stack of cards. On a separate sheet of paper, record the name of each team and its team members. That…

Boom Learning Changes You Need to Know About

…for Teacher Appreciation Week or another giveaway, choose TpT as the marketplace and enter “freegift” for the order number. Where to Purchase Boom Cards Because of these changes, the best…

Playing the Mystery Skype Game

…team think of a secret number. The players on the other team ask Yes/No questions to try to guess the other team’s number. Is your number higher than 50? Is…

Valentine Candy Hearts Math Investigation

…the same number of candies? Inquiring minds want to know! Questions like these provide a perfect opportunity for a bit of data analysis fun! When I posed these questions to…

5 Engaging Ways to Introduce New Content

…start that way. In fact, there’s usually a pretty epic scene to start out the movie in order to grab the viewer’s attention. Movie makers know that the first few…

6 Reasons to Teach Calculator Skills

…fairly solid understanding of numbers and what they mean. I don’t advocate giving them to young children who have not had time to develop number sense, because entering numbers into…

Mighty Math Tasks!

…for me to grasp at the beginning of the training. I thought “There is no way that my third graders are going to be able to estimate reasonable numbers to…