The beginning of the school year is an excellent time to get your number talks routine off to a great start. While you are preparing for back to school, consider these tips to add a number talks routine to your…
Ready to jump into fraction instruction? These Valentine math fraction activities are sure to help your students deepen their fraction knowledge. These are some of my favorite lessons! Fraction Representations/3D Heart Mobile The perfect Valentine craft! One big problem with…
Teaching fractions to third graders used to terrify me. Fractions are a hard math concept for a 9 year old. In fact, many adults have trouble with them. Throughout my years of teaching, I have learned to be more thorough…
The holidays are my favorite time to be a teacher. Nothing beats the excitement of an elementary school at Christmas time. Holiday spirit is in the air and you can’t help but smile. I like celebrating the holidays with my…
Addition and subtraction with regrouping is a tough concept! This concept is abstract and often our students are not ready to understand the process. In this post I will highlight some strategies I use to help my students become great…
Multiplication is a big deal in 3rd grade. It’s the first thing that pops in my mind when I think of 3rd grade math. I make an effort to spend a lot of time really teaching my students the math…
In my previous post, I wrote about branching out from traditional number talks and incorporating content. You can read my post about what this looks like in my classroom & the benefits I saw from making this change. Today, I…
I love the idea of beginning my math class with number talks. My students were engaged in discussion with their peers about the computation process. They were sharing different ways to solve the same problem. There were lots of smiles…
You only have 76,775 minutes with the students in your class each year. That seems like a lot of time, but school days are busy and pass quickly. Because of this, you should choose purposeful activities to pack the most…
Our biggest goal as math teachers is to help our students become critical thinkers and problem solvers. I help my third graders develop critical thinking skills by using multi-step word problems in my math class every day. Think about when…
