Hundred Chart Activities: The 100 House
One of the things that’s awesome about being a math coach is having the opportunity to interact with so many creative teachers on a daily basis! I picked up this…
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Tackling Tough Math Word Problems
There’s no doubt that our students are seeing tougher word problems on state math accountability tests. In Texas, our students take the STAAR test, and the current version is much…
Composing and Decomposing Numbers
One of the reasons I love teaching math is that it is so much different now than when I was in elementary school (Google paleolithic age for a frame of…
Be Wise…Subitize!
Okay, I realize the title of this post is very corny, but it got your attention so I can talk about one of my favorite subjects–subitizing. My sister will say…
CRA for Adding Three Addends
I talk a lot about teaching through the concrete → representational → abstract (CRA) sequence of instruction. Over the years, I’ve seen what happens when students are pushed to the…
