A Month Of Games: Target Addition
Hello, it's Emily again!! Kristin said she was doing a month of games and I had to share this game after a group of kiddos LOVED it a few weeks ago!! I teach 4th graders, but help out in a 2nd grade classroom focusing on addition fluency. I introduced this game in a whole group setting after they did their mid-year benchmark testing. They were in need of a fun, skill-based game that would get them excited to keep building their fluency.
Read MoreA Month of Games: The Dot Game
How many times have you gone out to dinner and you see the dreaded dot game on your child's menu? My daughter loves playing this game, I can't say I always had the same enthusiasm for it. A few years ago a friend of mine introduced me to the idea of changing it up and adding math fact practice to it! After learning this my enthusiasm changed, so did my daughter's, but she did come around to liking it again after she learned some strategies.So, ...
Read MoreA Month of Games: First Up, Division!
Many of you are knee-deep into division units during this time of year. Several years ago I came across a division lesson by Marilyn Burns (one of my math idols). I have used this lesson with my own students as well as a modeling it in other teachers' classrooms. Every time I play it the kids have fun and deeper their understanding of division. I start out by reading aloud the picture book, The Doorbell Rang. If you don't have access to ...
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Number Cards
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 myself around the house. I may even get a little froggy and throw in some puzzles with letters and numbers. When my middle child, now 8, ...
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How "SMART" Are We???
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 to use a number bond to show the relationship between multiplication and division, created visual models, and ...
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