I have three kids of my own and I’m a teacher. I have always been the mom that sort-of, kind-of works with my kids at home on numbers and letters while they’re in preschool, but nothing over the top. I’m talking show the Letter Factory videos and doing one-to-one correspondence counting when I’m doing something … Continue reading Number Cards
Some of you know I am volunteering with two third-grade classrooms in the building where I used to teach. We have spent the first part of this year working on understanding the concepts of multiplication and division. We've built equal groups with counters, skip-counted on a number line, built area models and arrays, learned how … Continue reading How “SMART” Are We???
I am excited to have the opportunity to once again deliver my 2-day seminar across the country. For those of you who have attended in the past, thank you! Your positive comments and feedback have helped me continuously shape and evolve this seminar to meet teachers’ needs. For those of you who haven’t had the … Continue reading It’s Seminar Season…
Hi friends! This is Emily, and I am excited to join Kristin on this journey of helping to improve math instruction and share ideas with all of you. For my first post I wanted to share an idea with you that I started doing last year with my class during the first week of school. … Continue reading What the Heck is a Rekenrek???
I have enjoyed getting to know so many of you this summer through conferences and in-school trainings! To my faithful followers from last year, welcome back! How did it get to be August already??? As I have shared with many of you in person, my personal goal for this year is to get better at … Continue reading Welcome Back!
Hopefully you will have joined us on Tuesday night poolside in Vegas. I've already heard from several presenters who read yesterday's post and they will be there with me! We meet so many of you in our sessions, but we don't get the chance to really get to know you. That's what the pool sessions … Continue reading 17 Reasons to Attend SDE’s National Teaching Math Conference: Reasons #8 & 9
53 days and counting...crazy to think that two months from today everyone will be home from the conference. Time is certainly flying by quickly! On to reason #7 to attend the Teaching Math Conference--Interactive Notebooks! At the end of day 1 I will spend 75 minutes discussing the nuts and bolts of interactive notebooks for … Continue reading 17 Reasons to Attend SDE’s National Teaching Math Conference: Reason #7
54 days! Can you believe it is only 54 days until the National Conference?? Time is certainly flying by. I am sure many of you are in the midst of wrapping up your current school year. Which means, you are also looking ahead to the next school year. What better way to get prepared than … Continue reading 17 Reasons to Attend SDE’s National Teaching Math Conference: Reasons 5 & 6
Are you thinking about attending SDE's National Conferences this summer? Are you wanting to find a way to convince someone to "sponsor" you to attend? Well...I'm starting a series of posts which will give you 17 reasons you should attend the National Teaching Math Conference! Here we go: Reasons 1, 2, 3, and 4--Addition, Subtraction, … Continue reading 17 Reasons to Attend SDE’s National Teaching Math Conference: Reasons #1-4
One component about guided math that everyone can agree on, the use of small group instruction. We all know the benefits of working with students in small groups, especially when our class sizes seem to keep growing and the needs of our students continue to deepen. When we think about small groups, we must keep … Continue reading Guided Math Part 4: Small Groups with a Big Purpose
