Welcome to the Blog
Let's start learning!
Free Number Sense Boosters
Could your students’ number sense use a boost? These quick and simple activities improve number sense while engaging your students.
Latest from the Blog
How to Introduce Subtraction
There are a number of misconceptions and errors we can predict when we introduce subtraction to our students. Not understanding that subtraction starts with the total. Not understanding that subtraction can take away or take apart or find the difference. Not understanding that subtraction isn’t just the operation you use
Help! What You Need To Know If Your First Grader Can’t Do Addition
You’ve spent the first week of the school year settling in with your students and you’re ready to dive into your math curriculum. The first unit is a quick review of “counting-all” addition, and this time next week you will be knee-deep in “counting on”. Somehow it’s the first day
The Math Game You Need To Know About to Guarantee Engagement
On any given Friday or Saturday night, you can find me sitting at the dining room table. The baby has been put to bed for the night, beverages have been passed out to the adults and we settle in for a few hours of strategic gameplay. It started with simple
Fluency Hack: Prioritizing Missing Numbers In Equations
If you are looking to increase your students’ fact fluency, prioritizing the skill of missing numbers in equations is one of the keys to unlocking that skill in your student. If your students have struggled with this skill in the past, you’re not alone! Solving for missing numbers in equations
How to Prevent Teen Number Reversals With One Easy Activity
I cringe when it happens- a student brings you a piece of work they are so proud of. They have figured out a tricky story problem or have used blocks to add two numbers together. Their thinking is exactly correct. But their answer? It’s written in reverse. Thirteen has turned
Free Math Intervention Plan Template
It’s a funny thing pre-planning for intervention groups. Every summer I would find myself wanting to map out the topics I knew would be most important for my students in the coming year. At the same time, I had odd feelings of guilt or that I was doing something irresponsible.
How to Untangle Fact Fluency To Boost Your Students Learning
You walk into a staff meeting and your admins impress upon you the importance of all of your students meeting fact fluency standards by the end of the year. Gulp. Looking around the room you see teachers wincing — you’ve all received a lot of instruction on what NOT to
3 St. Patrick’s Day Math Crafts
I always know that spring is right around the corner when St. Patrick’s Day hits. Meet your students and their energy on his holiday with a fun activity that will keep them learning. Try one of these 3 St. Patrick’s Day math crafts this upcoming holiday season! St. Patrick’s Day
How to Improve Fact Fluency Through Fact Family Activities
Your students may be working on fact family activities to better understand the relationship between addition and subtraction or multiplication and division, but did you know that flexibility with these fact family activities also boosts your students’ fact fluency? It’s true! Taking a CRA approach to fact families can help
3 Valentine’s Day Math Crafts
Valentine’s Day in the classroom has a different energy than a typical school day. Meet your students and their energy with a fun and novel math activity that keeps them learning. Try one of these 3 Valentine’s Day math crafts this upcoming holiday! Valentine’s Day Love Bug Place Value Math