This week, I wanted to talk about an oldie but a goodie. When students are learning their math facts, we often jump straight to the...

You know I love reading picture books during my math lessons. I love finding a good book with great pictures that show students what math is all about. (You can check out some of my other favorites in my blog feed.) This week, I want to talk about a book that I have used with first graders-fifth graders: The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins. (This post does contain affiliate links.) This book brings alive the meaning of division by sharing chocolate cookies evenly among child

Many of you know I launched my Mental Math Within 100 co-op course this week! I'm so excited to begin working with 10 students two times...

Mental math is one of those areas that you either love or hate. You either grew up doing mental math and feel confident doing it or you...

Every time I sit down with a student to introduce a new concept, it goes one of two ways. Either the student begins to make conceptual understanding and progresses through the objective or we hit a wall and realize the student has more work to do. Both situations can cause problems. In the first scenario, I'm left wondering how far do I push the student. What if he/she masters the objective before everyone else? Do I enrich? Do I provide more problems? Do I continue to

I'm loving adding math literature to our daily read alouds. Today, I want to share the fabulous world of Greg Tang with you. If you...

As students begin working on math facts, it's essential that they get the part-whole relationship. This can be done using number bonds and stressing decomposition of numbers. This number bond work mat is great for helping students see how the parts and whole are represented in each equation. Each is identified with a different color and can be used in a page protector to write fact families. Use these fact families to help students see how facts are related and how they can

Telling time using a clock- lost art form or a major skill? This has been a conversation a few of us had. I still think it's a great...

I don't know about you, but my students get bored with the same textbook and workbook activities. Sometimes it just needs to be presented in a different format. We love our math journals, and I have been using them each day to review concepts. One of the concepts, we keep coming back to each month is how to properly read and write numbers, especially for my students that have fine motor issues. This month, I will be sharing with you several options for journal writing to w

In Grade 1, students begin to subtract with regrouping within 40 and apply these skills to subtract within 100. This tiny skill is HUGE...