As we are all discovering, the new Common Core Standards for Math stress the importance of teaching students a variety of strategies for a particular skill.  It is then up to the student to

Ask a student to make a list of what they like least about math and it’s likely that ‘story problems’ will be pretty high on that list. So, for the past 4 years, I

The new Common Core Standards for Math prompted me to create this Divisibility Rules Pack for use in my own classroom. Common Core emphasizes the need to develop mental math strategies with students.  Understanding

Conferences are over, yeah!  I finally had some time to get busy and create one of the many ideas floating around in this brain of mine, lol. Last week our 5th grade math lesson

It just amazes me how nervous I get before Parent/Teacher Conferences.  I have 14 of my 27 scheduled for this evening after school and my stomach is already in knots.  While I have never,

I am so excited by the enthusiasm my students have expressed regarding their math journals.  They practically beg me to put a resource in…particularly a foldable.  Funny how 5th graders enjoy cutting and pasting.