You know how much I love celebrating holidays, especially during the months of January-April when it's cold and rainy outside! Let's...

I've been going through my library and coming across so many good favorites. (I have got to find a better way to keep them all organized!) While looking through my books, I came across another favorite of mine- Goodnight Numbers by Danica McKellar. (This post does contain affiliate links.) This bedtime story takes you through the bedtime routine of a toddler by introducing the numbers one through ten. It includes the word form and digit form. What makes it truly wonderfu

(This post does contain affiliate links.) You know I love writing about picture books that have math connections. I love it so much that I would encourage you to check out all the other blog posts that discuss math literature, because there are a ton of them! Today, I want to share this gem of a book with you: We have loved this series of books and have quite a few of them on our bookshelf. My students love the crazy animal characters that are on each page. In fact, we o

One year when I was teaching, I had a classroom with a lot of autistic students. These students taught me so much about how I communicate, because I had to be as literal as possible. It really made me think about how children's brains take in the information around them and how I expect them to interpret that information. I think sometimes I expect children to process emotions and tasks the way my brain does. I can recall talking to a colleague about how these students had

When students solve word problems, there can be a lot of challenges. Maybe students struggle with all the language there is to process in the actual reading of the word problem. Maybe students aren't sure what operation to use when solving the problem. Maybe students don't know where to start when solving a multi-step problem. Word problems are just plain challenging. They require students to combine several skills and apply their understanding. One way we can do that is

(This post does contain affiliate links.) I always enjoy a great picture book, but when it connects math concepts, I'm especially...

Why do some students struggle in geometry? Help students master angles with free vocabulary and student angle practice.

Students begin learning about shapes in Kindergarten. They learn how to notice their differences in size, color and shape. They assign names to figures and learn that things can be called squares or triangles. As students extend their mathematical understanding, they learn that these shapes can have different names based on their attributes. Triangles can be named by the length of their sides or the types of angles they have. They could even be called two different names

Use flow charts to help students work through multi-step concepts in math.

A few months back, some members asked me to include some math literature connections. You may want to check out The Doorbell Rang , The Greedy Triangle or The Grapes of Math for other great examples of using literature to discover math concepts. Now that it's freezing outside, we love to sit down with a good book and see how it connects to our math understanding. And I just found a whole slew of math literature books I had hidden away in the closet! (Score!) So, stay t