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5 Tips for Developing Positive Relationships With Students in Math Intervention
With ever-changing schedules and limited time to meet, it’s important to establish easy and positive relationships with students in your math intervention groups right off the bat! Building relationships with students is about so much more than an ice breaker or a team building activity. Developing relationships with students is
Troubleshooting Subtraction with Regrouping
When you have a student who isn’t “clicking” with the idea of subtraction with regrouping it can be tempting to go out and find more activities and experiences to help them on their way. In reality, it might not be that your student needs more— there’s a reason this skill
What Your Students Need To Know BEFORE You Begin Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping
Teaching addition and subtraction with regrouping is such an exciting time. It’s a benchmark skill that many kids and parents think of as the first opportunity to do “big kid math”. But before we rush into this skill, we need to be sure that our students have the foundational understandings
5 Steps to Math Intervention Organization
When you only have a small bit of time to plan for and implement your math intervention organization strategy, managing your math intervention materials can be the difference between having a successful group meeting and not meeting at all on any given day. How do you organize math intervention materials?
How to Teach Elapsed Time Word Problems
If you have students working towards understanding elapsed time word problems there are a few strategies you can keep in mind to make the process easier! All Elapsed Time Word Problems Are Not Created Equally! When diving into elapsed time word problems, not all problems are the same level of
5 Steps to Independence in Math Class
Have you ever sat at a small group table watching a student succeed only to find them floundering when it came to an assessment on the exact same topic? Your instinct might be to spend more time with that student — but how when you are already spread so thin?
Why Patterns In Multiplication Matter
By the conclusion of 3rd grade students should know all products of two one-digit number from memory. If our students are individually learning each fact, they will need to memorize 100 individual facts (over 100 if we add in facts multiplying by 10)! Taking advantage of patterns in multiplication can
5 Simple and Engaging Christmas Math Read Aloud Books and Activities
With the holidays come a LOT of excitement. I have compiled a list of books you can use for a super simple Christmas math read aloud in your classroom with minimal to no prep ahead of time. Perfect for this busy holiday season in your classroom! It’s nice to be
3 Word Problem Solving Strategies To Improve Word Problem Performance
The ability to solve word problems doesn’t necessarily come easily to all students. We can improve our students’ ability to solve story problems with a few simple word problem-solving strategies. When it comes to comprehending, understanding, and solving word problems, sometimes it is helpful to move beyond traditional word problems
Common Word Problem Roadblocks
Word problems have long been a source of frustration for both students and teachers. But, in the real world, numbers aren’t found in isolation! Math is about recognizing the problem we are trying to solve, developing a plan to solve that problem and then carrying out the plan and checking