Why I Stopped Criticizing Common Core Math
…that celebrities and comedians like to paint a picture of students using number parts and number lines as adults, (ahem–Stephen Colbert) and I laugh right along with them…because using those…
…that celebrities and comedians like to paint a picture of students using number parts and number lines as adults, (ahem–Stephen Colbert) and I laugh right along with them…because using those…
…tool for building math vocabulary. Mystery Number Detectives takes only a few minutes a day to play and requires very few materials, but while students are playing the game, they’re…
…on virtually any topic, and count the number of task card sets that pop up in your results! If you’re new to task cards, you might not realize that they’ve…
No matter how much you love teaching, it’s easy to get to the point of burnout before you realize it. One minute you love your job, and the next you’re…
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…are so clear you could easily pick it up 3 minutes before class and be ready to teach the lesson. I love how she has written Day 1 number 1,…
…useful purpose. Within just a few minutes, each of your students will have four unique partners lined up for future activities! Here’s how it works. First, students make “appointments” with…
…the logic? Bring on the metric system! Every unit is based on tens which corresponds perfectly to our base ten number system. Unfortunately, I don’t think the United States will…
…prep way of reviewing multiple math concepts with grocery flyers. If your mailbox looks anything like mine, it is overflowing with junk mail. One of the biggest culprits is grocery…
…Jr. that’s perfect for upper elementary students! It’s just 4 minutes long and features two lovable animated characters, Tim and Moby. Somehow Tim and Moby manage to explain the important…
…not as fluent. Then I showed them how to time each other for one minute as they read aloud, and how to help each other calculate the average number of…
