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Free Number Sense Boosters
Could your students’ number sense use a boost? These quick and simple activities improve number sense while engaging your students.
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7 Blog Posts to Improve Your Fact Fluency Program
Whether you are hoping to increase your students’ addition and subtraction fact fluency or whether you are working with upper grade level students developing their multiplication and division fact fluency, the teaching strategies remain the same! Delve into this collection of fact fluency resources to help your students work smarter,
Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping Round Up
If you are embarking upon the challege of teaching your students addition and subtraction with regrouping, I have a collection of blog posts and resources that will help you to find success! Related Resources for Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping
Teaching Fractions Round Up
Whether your students are just starting out with fractions or have progressed to fraction operations, this set of blog posts and resources will help you get the most out of your time in the classroom! Related Resources
Hands-On Fraction Materials
You absolutely MUST start with hands-on activities for fractions. It’s an abstract concept that can easily be made concrete for your learners. But keep in mind that all math manipulatives are NOT created equally! Various tools offer varying levels of support to your students. While you certainly don’t need every
Simplifying Math Intervention Data
Collecting data for math intervention does not need to be an overcomplicated task! There are a few types of data you need to make sure you are collecting that will allow you to feel confident in your assessment strategy. 3 Types of Math Intervention Assessment Data A challenge when it
3 Engaging Ways to Anchor Your Math Intervention Lesson
You’re starting a new topic in your math intervention small groups. You know that you want to build UNDERSTANDING in your students rather than just “showing them how to [insert topic here]. You know that math intervention is so much MORE than doing a worksheet together at a small group
5 Elements of a Strong Math Intervention Plan
It’s so easy to get caught up in the ever-growing list of things you should or could be doing during your math intervention time but I’m more interested in simplifying and implementing the basics well! The #1 resource I will recommend when it comes to knowing the absolute *musts* in
Happy Teacher Appreciation 2024
It’s time to celebrate you and all of the hard work you do for your students and their families. Every day this week you will have access to a new FREE resource along with a special dollar deal designed to save you money, but more importantly, TIME this spring! **The
Using Word Problems As A Math Intervention Lesson Hook
When planning a math intervention lesson I work backward. I start with the skill or standard, what I want the students to know. Then, I “think CRA” and determine the models and links that might best support a students’ understanding. Once I know the aim of my lesson and the
Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping Activities that Build Number Sense
If you are teaching addition and subtraction with regrouping in your classroom you have an opportunity to build number sense at the same time through the activities that you use! Let’s first stop to acknowledge that addition and subtraction with regrouping using the standard algorithm is not a 2nd grade
