15 Tips for Lining Up Your Class

…Young: Alpha by last name, alpha by first name, month of birth, table number (prime, composite, factors of x number, multiple of y number), rows, columns, how far they got…

Team Table Management

…team, you can number the Team Tubs and store them on a shelf. It really keeps you from having to pass materials out all day long. You can number the…

Cooperative Learning Team Management Tips

Seating students in cooperative learning teams simplifies many aspects of classroom management. Here are a few of my favorite team management strategies. Team Tubs Team Tubs are plastic containers (about…

Fun Games for Learning the 50 States

game directions and U.S. maps. If your students aren’t ready for a game that includes all 50 states, you can start them out with the five regional games in my…

Easy Differentiation with Colored Folders

…to or read the same text; however, you may require each group to recall a varying number of facts from the text. For example, all of these students were reading…

Why I Stopped Criticizing Common Core Math

…wrong with the way we were taught? Math became hard and confusing at times for my children and me. To make matters more complicated, I am a private math tutor….

Math is More Than a Numbers Game

…to read and understand the language of mathematics than on the ability to perform mathematics computation. In other words … Math is more than a numbers game. Years ago, standardized…