Have you ever handed out a math worksheet and watched your student’s eye glaze over? “Why do we have to do this!” “We did this last week!” “I know how to do this already!” And yes, unless you’re just…
When a child can answer 7 + 8 quickly and correctly we know they’re developing strategies for number fact retrieval. And when you’ve spent the last two weeks teaching them the mental math strategy – doubles plus one, this…
I love it when I know kids are using addition strategies to answer their number facts quickly and accurately. You know how it is, at the beginning of the year they’re using a ruler, their fingers or blocks to…
Space, the sea, pets, insects … what theme do you love to cover year after year? What gets your creative juices flowing thinking about all the activities you can do? For me, it’s a food theme. No, it’s not…
Do you spend a lot of time teaching the addition strategies but a lot less time on subtraction? No matter what country you teach in, you will find a mathematics standard that says something like, ‘Fluently add and subtract…
Have you ever noticed how your low readers want to be doing the same word work activities as your high readers? Of course with everyone on different word lists and at different reading levels this just isn’t possible, but…
Double digit addition with regrouping is another tricky concept for children to learn and understand.…
We all want our students to master their multiplication facts. Quick recall is important and we know that fact fluency builds so much confidence in our young learners.…