Over the years I have always struggled to find something for students who finish early to do. Usually they just wind up distracting those that are still working. It was with these students in
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 Partial Quotient Strategy pack for use with students and with parents–yes, parents ! I will get to parents shortly, but first…Common Core
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