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If you asked your students what the purpose of math is, what do you think they’d say? This post contains affiliate links, which simply means…-
One of the perks of being a math instructional coach is that you get to visit classrooms on a daily basis. On one of those…
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As a young girl, I briefly took gymnastics lessons. Anybody else? I have to admit that I was not very flexible—I couldn’t do a smooth…
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Are you looking for a way to provide your students with engaging computation practice? Today I have a super fun, brain-boosting, elementary math equations game!…
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Raise your hand if you wish your students were more confident and successful in solving word problems. Right, that’s what I thought. And the answer…
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I was first introduced to Todd Whitaker at CAMT back in 2012. I suspected I was in for a treat when the line to get…
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Marketers know that a product’s brand is everything. If a product is not selling to its potential, one solution is often to tweak the brand,…
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As we begin to introduce multi-digit multiplication, the tendency is to dive right into the standard algorithm. While the standard algorithm is an efficient strategy,…
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Composing and decomposing numbers is critical learning for Kindergarteners and 1st Graders. This is something that needs to be practiced all year long as students…
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Working with large numbers really needn’t be difficult for students. It’s all about patterns! You can read more about that here. Once students understand the…
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Oh, how I love easy games that are engaging for the kiddos and require low prep time! Especially when those games develop critical skills, like…
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There’s a lot to be learned from the data that comes from state testing if we use it correctly. Oftentimes, we’ll take a problem that…
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Not too long ago I wrote about the power of part/whole thinking, and how an understanding that begins in Kindergarten has tons of applications throughout…
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How important is it that our students understand fractions? According to a study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University, it’s super important. The research team found…
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Ten is obviously an important benchmark in our number system. In Kindergarten, learning the combinations of the numbers up to ten is a year-long process.…
