Too Much Glue: A Fun Math Journal Mini Lesson
As you’re planning for the new school year (or maybe you’re one of the lucky ones still enjoying summer!), you’re probably thinking about how you’ll introduce math journals. One of…
Math Workshop
One More and One Less Freebie!
My classroom teaching experience was in grades 2–5 (mostly 5th), so Kindergarten has always felt like a whole different world to me. One thing that really stands out is the…
Why Students Don’t Know Their Basic Math Facts and How to Help
If you teach 3rd grade, you know that some students come to your class not knowing their basic addition and subtraction facts. And in 4th and 5th grade, there are…
Math Workshop Check-Up
Here’s the scenario: You decided on your math workshop routines, you taught your procedures and expectations, and you feel like you’re in full swing. Now… While your kiddos are working,…
Make a Ten Strategy for Addition
In Kindergarten, our kiddos learn their “Friends of Ten“. In other words, they learn all the combinations that make ten (ex., 2 + 8, 3 + 7, etc.). In 1st…
Do This, Not That: Accountability & Assessment
The first question I am often asked related to Math Workshop is How do I hold the students accountable? I’m going to be brutally honest: holding your students accountable for…
Do This, Not That: Aligning to Standards
As students spend increasingly more time engaged in independent math workshop tasks, it’s essential that we align those tasks to our content standards and math process standards. This post is…
Do This, Not That: Structuring Math Workshop
Whether you are just getting started with a workshop approach to math or you have already implemented your own version, I have some tips for structuring math workshop to maximize…
Implementing Math Workshop
“The goal during the first few weeks of Math Workshop is to create a learning culture in which students know and apply routines and procedures and are ready to assume…
