Fractions, fractions, fractions

One of the most dreaded concepts by students--and some teachers, fractions is a key piece to better understanding how numbers work.

This post is to share some different resources that might help you as you plan for your fractions instruction.  I have tried to locate a variety: games, enrichment, tasks, and problem-solving.  Please let me know if there is something else you are searching for.  I will be happy to help in the quest.

Let me know if you have questions.  Please share this post with a friend who might find it useful.

E-toolkit:  Our EM ConnectEd component has a great fraction piece to it.  It is worth your time to explore all of the things it can do!  

Battleship Numberline:  Fun practice for 3rd graders on putting numbers on a number line

Slide to the Top:  This game has students place various fractions on a number line.  Can be played with fractions, decimals, or percents.

Dig It:  more practice with locating fractions on a number line.

Fraction Feud:  Students reason about numbers to make fractions bigger or smaller than each other.

Melvin's Make a Match:  a fractions matching game

Greedy Algorithm:  students work to figure out how the algorithm works

Fraction Jigsaw: jigsaw that includes practice of equivalence and addition and subtraction of fractions.

A variety of primary fraction tasks:  these are probably most appropriate for 3rd grade

Ben's game:  Good problem solving activity

Sweettart Hearts:  This 3 act task focuses on 3.NF.1 and 4.NF.4.  3 act tasks give context to problem solving and should be presented in a way which allows students to really explore the problem before solving it.  This notebook file has all of the questions, videos, and links in it.

Do the Dew:  Another 3 act task--this one involves unit fractions and simple addition.  3 act tasks give context to problem solving and should be presented in a way which allows students to really explore the problem before solving it. This notebook file has all of the questions, videos, and links in it.

The apple:  This 3 act tasks focuses on 4.NF.4.  3 act tasks give context to problem solving and should be presented in a way which allows students to really explore the problem before solving it.  This notebook file has all of the questions, videos, and links in it.

Engage New York has some good materials to supplement our Everyday Math study of fractions.  These links just take you to a grade level's page.

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Do you have any great resources to share? Please feel free to share below in the comments

Rethinking Our Instruction

This TED talk by Dan Meyer has been driving a lot of my learning and thinking lately.  While I worked hard to change my instruction to make it more meaningful for my students, I had not reached the level that he is talking about.  I wish I had.  His discussion and meaningfulness about his instruction inspires me.

I have found some resources from Graham Fletcher which are motivating me to change my instruction.  Would you like to take some steps to change the way your math class works?  Let me know!  I would love to work together for change.

Using Number Bonds

As I am working with students to build number sense and fact fluency, I find more than a few who can become pretty good with their basic facts. For example, a group of firsties I was working with on facts within 10 were becoming quite adept at getting the correct answer quickly and efficiently.  I was so pleased!

But then--we tried a new game.  A game where I gave a target number and they had to look at their cards to see if they had two that could make the target.  I was dismayed to see that there was a significant hole in their fluency.  This skill was really hard for them.  We had used number bonds to break apart numbers, we had played the pennies under the cup game, we had discussed decomposing numbers...but when asked to do it in a new context, these guys had a tough time.

So, I began teaching the concept from this angle.  Starting with the number and breaking it apart and identifying the addends.  We had done it during the beginning of our fact work, but it apparently needed some extra practice.  We are continuing to work on this through games and story problems. I am hoping to see it all making a difference!

Have you tried giving your kiddos a target and asking them to come up with a fact that will get it?  I'd be interested to hear your results.

Number bonds are a great visual to use when teaching decomposition of numbers or part-part-whole.  I have created number bond mats where the kids lay manipulatives out so they can better see the number's decomposition,

You often see number bonds in use for primary grades, but they work well for helping older kids grasp the concepts of expanded form, fractions, multiplication, and division, too!  Consider using them to help cement the idea of part-part-whole.

I created a snowflake number bond page that you can use if you wish.  Share with someone that you think might benefit.

For the Holidays

It's that time of year again....we are busy, our students are busy, and we still have a lot of work to do.  :)

Attached are two holiday SMART documents.  You are welcome to use them in your room as you wish.  Maybe you take a page or two a day...maybe there is only one page that interests you....maybe you want to save them for those final days before break....whatever you choose, I hope you find some use of them.

Each contains a couple logic puzzles.  I like to give kids little manipulatives to help them solve the puzzle, so I made a doc for you that you can print and use if you wish.

Have a great December!  I love being in the classrooms--let me know if you could use anything!

K-2 Holiday SMART

K-2 Logic puzzle images

3-5 Holiday SMART

3-5 Logic puzzle images

Timed Tests...How can we measure automaticity?

A common discussion I have with teachers centers around the idea of measuring fluency in our students.

Fluency is much more than automaticity. That is part of the eventual goal, but it is not necessarily the most important goal. In fact, while fluency is a part of every grade level's standards, 2nd and 3rd grades are the only grades where "instant recall" or "knowing from memory" (automaticity) is mentioned.  Both of these grade levels ask for this piece to be mastered by the end of the school year.  In grades K-1, students are focusing on the fluency piece which builds students'  number sense.

We need to seek out ways to measure this "knowing from memory" other than timed tests.  Jo Baeler, a professor at Stanford and a leading researcher in mathematics instruction wrote this interesting article for the NCTM in April 2014.

So...how can we measure instant recall without giving timed tests?  I know they are easy to administer--I gave them, too, for many years, but I eventually found that the students who excelled on timed tests were the same kids who picked up on their facts easily no matter what practice we used.  

There are a number of ideas that I think we could try.  
*Observation in the classroom is an easy example.  Watch your students as you work in small group, during minilessons, or when they are playing games.  Do they know their facts in these situations?  
*The use of games and student data from games can help demonstrate instant recall.  *Consider using a fact exit slip before leaving for a special....you could present a fact and students would write the answer on the slip or on a dry erase board before leaving the room.  You could use this data over time to help show instant recall of facts.  
*Have your students self-assess:  provide them with a list of 10 facts and have them complete them and mark the ones that they knew automatically.  
*Take a few minutes of transition and have the students roll two dice or draw two cards, write down the numbers, and perform the operation they are currently working on.  They just keep rolling and computing until you tell them to stop.  (In this scenario,  you could differentiate the problems by giving specific dice or cards to the child)  When they are done, they turn in a list of facts that they completed.  
There are many alternatives, and you are all so creative. Besides, you know what works best for your kids.

The thing is... this goal of instant recall is for the end of the year.  We don't need to begin measuring the instant recall until later in the year in 2nd and 3rd grade.  We should be working to immerse our students in the facts that best fit their needs.  Our books lay out a plan for fact acquisition.  Many of your students will move according to this rate.  Games and activities would build off of only the facts that have been instructed.  If doubles haven't been taught yet, the students would only be working on facts which have been covered in the classroom.  If we begin measuring the automaticity of these facts too early, we just beat kids into believing that they aren't good at math.  We need to work to show them different ways to build their fluency throughout the year, and saving our worries about instant recall until the end of the year. This will allow our students to interact with the numbers and patterns in a more meaningful way, and hopefully, lead to the acquisition of these facts.

Many teachers use Xtramath to help build this automaticity; while this program does have a timed piece to it, I don't believe that the time factor is as negative as it is in a timed test or another program like RocketMath.  As mentioned above, many children just gain anxiety about their facts from these timed situations.  

Most importantly, we want our students to feel good about math and their skills.  I was doing a math running record the other day on a student, and I asked him if he liked math.  His response was, "No, I'm not good at it."  Yet, when we completed his running record, he had used very high-level strategies to determine all of his answers.  He was not automatic about all of the answers, but it was impressive the ways he had learned to acquire the answers.  That, to me, is more important than the instant recall. I told him how good he was with math, and he was surprised to hear that.  :(

I have read multiple articles comparing math fluency to reading fluency.  We would not expect students to read or work beyond their level in reading.  Why do we do that in math--pushing them into facts before they have mastered others?  Would we rather have a student who can comprehend or one who can read all the words but has no idea what they mean? I believe we need to revisit our beliefs about math fact fluency and look to make our instruction match what the research shows.

So--as we work to build our students' fluency in facts--here is another activity you can use this month for individual practice.  By using different dice and menus, you can differentiate it for each student.  I shared this with a friend a couple of years ago, and her students liked it so much that she created one for many different times of the year.   

What do you think about this?  Do you have other ways to informally assess this standard?

Games That Cover Key Concepts

Calculation Nation is part of the NCTM's Illuminations site.  The games on Calculation Nation allow students to compete virtually with other students around the world to practice key concepts of the upper grades: fractions, geometry, and factors and multiples to name a few.

Here are some ways I think these games could be used in the classroom.

1) Set up accounts for all of your students to play as they wish.

2) Set up a class account and then play on the SMARTBoard as a class to practice key concepts.  

3) Have students sign in as a guest to play the concept that practices an important key concept.

Playing these games on the SMARTBoard to start or finish a lesson could lead to some great number talks and problem solving discussions.  

Share your ideas with others.  Have you tried these games before?  Which ones work?  Which need special preparation?

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Parent Involvement

With conferences around the corner, you might want to provide your students' parents with resources that will help them when working with their children at home.

For each grade, I created a sheet which highlights some of the goals for that grade level  as well as ways parents can help their children to sharpen their skills without just offering more worksheets and math problems at home.

I am also resharing the parent page that you were given at the beginning of the year that has QR code links for parents to use to help them better different concepts and algorithms of each grade. If you haven't had a chance to share this yet, now might be a good time.

Both of these handouts might be a good resource to share with  parents at conferences next week.

Kindergarten At Home                  Kindergarten QR Codes

1st Grade At Home                       1st Grade QR Codes

2nd Grade At Home                      2nd Grade QR Codes

3rd Grade At Home                       3rd Grade QR Codes

4th Grade At Home                       4th Grade QR Codes

5th Grade At Home                       5th Grade QR Codes

Let me know if there is anything else you are looking for!

Why not TRY it?

This time of the year becomes busy with report cards, conferences, assessments, and holidays.

Sometimes, we have a day or two where we don't really want to begin a  new unit because of an extended weekend or not enough time to fit a unit in before a break.  Sometimes, we just want to mix things up.

Consider trying A Week of Inspirational Maths.  It is a week of planned lessons and videos which will inspire you and your students to become more engaged in open, visual, and more creative mathematics! 

Jo Boaler from Stanford has organized three weeks worth of K-12 lessons and activities for you to try in your classroom.  They would be great to use to start the year, but could be great discussion to build your students' concepts of math, standards based grading, and growth mindset, too.  

You might decide to try the lessons (a few or the whole week's worth) before the end of 2016.  I think the odds are good that she will be developing another week of activities for 2017.

Let me know if this interests you, and if you would like support putting it in place.  If you try it, I'd love to hear about your day(s), or be part of the fun!!

Only 8 Fridays 'til Christmas!

And only 7 of those are we in school!

I created these Christmas tree puzzles for practice on math fact fluency.  They could be used in lots of ways in the classroom.

Download the ones you want.  The directions are included.

Addition Facts Under 10

Addition Facts 11-20

Subtraction Facts within 10

Subtractions Facts from 11-20

Multiplication Facts

Division Facts

Merry Christmas!  :)

Have you checked out Greg Tang's website?

You might know Greg Tang from his great math books like The Best of Times,  The Grapes of Math, or Math Potatoes.   Many of his books are included in our Math Reads sets that we received last year.  His books are great mentor texts for reading, writing, or math workshop!  He includes strategies to help the reader make sense of the numbers.

Whether you are familiar with his books or not, his website is a great resource for all grades!
On this site, he has activities that correlate with his books. (One of these could make a great minilesson.) He has a word problem generator which allows you to differentiate your problems depending on student needs.  In addition to those great features, the site also has some pretty awesome games.  These games are leveled and many can be used from K-5.  The games allow for practice on subitizing, coins, integers on a number line, and more.

I think this site deserves a look-see.  Let me know what you think!

Can you KenKen?

I recently found KenKen puzzles.  They have some similarities to Sudoku puzzles, but they include use of operations to complete the puzzle.  I think they would be a great problem-solving option during your math workshop.  It would be good practice for all kiddos, but it would really allow your kids who have their facts down to work on building that fluency that they need.

This site allows  you to customize your KenKen puzzles. (It also explains to you how they work.) You may have to do a few together as a class before you set the kids loose on them, but I think that students in Grades 1-5 could do these puzzles.  The site will allow you to differentiate the puzzles by operation and difficulty.

To try one online as a class, you can click here.  This one changes daily, and you will not be able to differentiate the problems here, so the day's puzzle might not work for students in Grades 1-2.

Problem-solving is such a key part to creating successful mathematicians, and I think KenKen puzzles provide an easy way for you to implement some good student involvement, math vocabulary, and problem solving!

Comment below if you have used these or if you know of another place to locate some KenKen puzzles.

Building Number Talk

Mr. Elementary Math has a lot of great ideas.  This is one that I thought I would share.  This document  he shared has two templates:  one geared for primary grades and one geared for intermediate grades.

He calls this activity The Amazing Race.  The premise is simple.  Pair students.  Choose a number for them to put in the "Number of the Day" box.  They then work with their partner to come up with as many ways to decompose that number as possible.  He recommends starting with decompositions to help build place value knowledge, but I think as your students' abilities progress, you could begin to ask for other ways.

Teachers can move from very easy numbers to decimals, fractions, or exponents depending on their students and needs.

There are many ways it could be used in a classroom:  in a math rotation, as an opening or closing activity, as a challenge activity, as an early-finisher activity...No matter when you use it, I recommend that you get students to collaborate and talk math. It is a great opportunity to use and build their math vocabulary.

Grades 1-5: Extension Options for Unit 3

Looking for some activities for your students  in Unit 3 of Everyday Math?  Here are some great activities which will allow them the opportunity to collaborate with classmates, explore strategies, and build math talk.

1st GRADE:

Strike it Out--Game that mixes addition and subtraction with strategy.
Moving Colors--This activity is set up for whole class, but I think it could be easily adapted for a small group.
Halloween Costume Logic Puzzle
Cookie Monster Problem--Good problem to work on perseverance
Number Icicles:  Skip Counting Puzzles
Would you Rather:  Place Value problem

2nd GRADE:
Sums Investigation--Problem solving activity with sums of two-digit numbers.  
TicTacToe Sums--A game for practicing addition with addends 0-12
Ages Logic Puzzle
Make it Equal--Open Middle problem about equality
Adding Two-Digit Numbers--Open Middle problem with addition
Bubbling Cauldrons: Challenging unsolved problem
Number Icicles:  Skip Counting Puzzles
Would you Rather:  Jellybean Subtraction Problem
Would you Rather: Money problem
Would you Rather:  Place Value problem

3rd GRADE:

Robot Steps--This activity mixes addition with pattern exploration.
Bowl-a-Fact--Challenging activity where students explore number combinations for specific results.
Sam the Squirrel--Story problem which involves multiple steps and strong thinking.  Good for individual or group work.
Tortoise and the Hare Skip Counting Challenge
Would you Rather:  Buying candy problem

4th  and 5th GRADE:

Keep it Simple--Task in which students are asked to state unit fractions as the sum of only other unit fractions.
Fractions Jigsaw--A challenging puzzle with equivalent fractions.
Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow--Challenging story problem involving fractions of sets.
Fraction and Rectangles task--DOK problem about equivalency
Open Middle Puzzle for Equivalency
Open Middle Decomposing Tenths and Hundredths
Would you Rather:  Sharing equal pieces of cake


Please feel free to share this with a friend.  If you have other resources that you have found work well, please share in the comments below.

Nix the Tricks--Use manipulatives and strategies to help students understand

One of the biggest challenges we have is to change our thinking about how we teach math. Many of us teach using the same methods and same "tricks" that were used to teach us  because this is how we feel comfortable.   Research shows that we should be working to help our students make sense of the math.  To do this, we need to work to include more concrete examples of problems and to eliminate the teaching of tricks in math.  

I found this great website called Nix the Tricks.  On this site, a high school math teacher explains how the tricks hurt students in the long run.  She also offers a free, downloadable book where she lists different tricks that teachers teach, why they shouldn't be taught, and how we should be teaching instead.

I am constantly looking for good manipulatives to use in the classroom.  This document has a list of some virtual manipulatives that can be used in all classrooms K-5.  As kids get older, we sometimes think we shouldn't be encouraging manipulatives anymore, but that is not usually true.  All students need to go through three stages with a concept: concrete, pictorial, and abstract/numerical.  They will all be in each stage for a different amount of time, so most 5th grade classrooms will still have kiddos who need to use manipulatives to help it make sense.

That's what we want.  For it all to make sense.

Share these resources with others that you think might benefit.  If you want some help with putting some of these things into action in your classroom, please let me know!

October means Halloween

Check out these SMART Notebook docs for some fun review this month!  Because multiple grade skills are covered--use the pages that work for you!

Grades K-2

Grades 3-5

Please feel free to share with a friend.  I didn't make the really cute K-2 one; I found it and just made a few edits.  :)

Helping kids develop number relationships

I heard about this app today and thought I would share!  It looks like a great extension/challenge for firsties, but also has a great way to build number sense and relationships in your other kiddos!

This is talking about the free Lite version, and I am not sure what the paid version will offer you.  If you don't have access to tablets, the concept remains the same and could be something you do in your classroom on the SMARTBoard or some other, more flexible number grid.

The basic version involves students finding a number on a blank number grid.  The trick there is that the other boxes are empty until clicked.  The child can click to help orient themselves to the grid.

In the advanced version, the student is again given a number to locate on the grid, but the orientation of the grid has been changed.  The child must use his/her knowledge of numbers in order to locate the number on the grid.  Each orientation will have 10 different numbers for students to place.  I think it would be a powerful tool for building student's problem-solving and number sense relationships!

Let me know if you would like help figuring out a way to develop a less-techy version to use in your classroom.

The following video is a student's review of the basic app.  

Increasing math talk

It sometimes takes a while to get kids to feel comfortable talking math.  They can find it hard to defend their answer, use the correct vocabulary, and have confidence in their thinking.

This website might help with that!  It is called Which One Doesn't Belong? , and it follows the idea of the great Sesame Street clip "One of these things isn't like the other..."  The trick is there are many correct answers.  Students choose their reason that one doesn't fit and then defends it to the group.  Others might choose a whole different answer and be able to defend it as well,

There are puzzles on here for K-5.  I think they might make a great opening activity, math station, or small group activity. Can your students make an argument for each of the four numbers?

I'd love to hear how you use it!  If you make new puzzles to use in your classroom, please consider sharing in your grade level folder and/or with me.  People are always looking for new ways to challenge their students.  

Which of these doesn't belong?

Plickers--Have you tried them?

Hopefully, you have heard about Plickers.  If not, go to the website to learn more.

Plickers are cards that students use to respond to multiple choice questions presented by you on the SMARTBoard.  Once the child has an answer, you use your smartphone or Ipad to scan the room and "pick up" their answers.  Each person's card is individualized so that they can't compare it to someone else's for a right answer.  Individualization also helps you to see who is getting the right answer and who isn't.

The site will tell you how many had the right answer for each question both at the time and after you are done.  You feed the program the questions you want to ask.  You can ask all of the questions at once, or you can just ask one or two to get feedback on the day's lesson.

Last year, when I used this site, I emailed the Plickers people to ask if teachers could share question sets.  They told me that capability would come in the near future.  It looks like to me that it is not ready for that yet.  However, if you create a question set in word, then other people who want the questions just need to copy and paste it into their own account to use it.  Once the question set is in, the questions can be used as often as desired.

Your IMC specialist should be able to help you with this program if you would like, but I am also happy to help you figure out ways to use this in your math class.

I have made a question set for U2--4th grade, U2--1st grade, U3--2nd grade, and U3--5th grade.  You can copy and paste these into your Plicker account to use if you wish.  Good luck!

U2 Plickers--1st grade

U2 Plickers--4th grade

U3 Plickers--2nd grade

U3 Plickers--5th grade

Extension Activities for Unit 2 and Unit Targets

It is often challenging to find ways to enrich our students who have already shown mastery of skills in each unit.  It is tempting to teach them skills beyond the grade level, but we should really work to build more depth of understanding of the grade level skills.  This can be done in many ways, but my examples for you for Unit 2 of EM are problem-solving based.

Nrich math has many problems to challenge all of your students.  These I have pulled to align with Unit 2. They may take your students multiple days to complete--and that is fine!  They may still be trying to solve or explain this problem in Unit 4.  That is fine, too.  It is okay for them to struggle a little.  If you think these aren't enough of a challenge for your kiddos, explore the site a little--maybe you'll find something that will work better in your classroom.

Unit 2--Grade 1: 2,4,6,8: Students explore making number sentences
                              4 Dom: A number puzzle involving dominoes
                              One Big Triangle:  a puzzle for looking at sums of 10
                               Flower Petal Puzzles:  puzzles with sums of 10
                               

Unit 2--Grade 2: Ladybirds in the Garden:  Finding sums with specific addends
                               Tug of War:  A battle of addition and subtraction
                               Would you rather:  Halloween themed problem where students choose and 
                                justify
                               Big Magic:  Magic Square Puzzle
                               Nine Squares Puzzle:  Addition puzzle which requires perseverance

Unit 2--Grade 3:  Let us Divide: Different division story problems  
                                 True Scale Multiplication Table: Table that uses area arrays to show facts. 
                                Baking Cookies: Depth of Knowledge problem from Open Middle involving arrays.
                                The Kite:  multiplication word problem


Unit 2--Grade 4:  Inside Seven Squares : Finding area challenge
                                Why 24?: A problem that looks deeper at divisibility and prime numbers
                                Would you rather?:  Which income property is the better deal?
                                 Multiplication Table Sums:  A deeper dive into the multiplication table

Unit 2--Grade 5:  Thousands & Millions: Questions that make children look closer at a 
                                 million.
                                 Would you rather:  Children choose their choice of shopping sprees
                                 Genius Blocks:  Puzzles for addition of particular sums
                                 Pyramid Puzzle:  Logic Puzzle
                                 What is a Happy Number?:  Computation Puzzle

Finally, as we work to make our targets clear to our students, someone suggested a page of targets for each unit might help to keep our kiddos focused.  Each grade level's document has the target standards for each unit.  You may already have something like this that you use to focus your students, but, if not, feel free to use this in whichever way you find best.  I made them with 2 copies on a page to save a few trees.  :)

Grade 3  Standards per unit

Grade 4  Standards per unit

Grade 5  Standards per unit


If you have special enrichment activities for this unit that you would like to share with your colleagues, please do!  If you have a friend who might benefit from this post, please share it with them.  If you have something special you are looking for, please reach out to me, and I'll see what I can do!

Make Ten Resources

Making ten is  an important addition strategy for primary grades.  Here are some resources to help your students comprehend the concept as well as develop some automaticity of facts.  When working on facts, always try to have your students first involved concretely, then pictorially, then numerically/abstractly.  Fact fluency involves good understanding of the concept--not just rote memory. I have labeled each activity with a C, P,or an A.  

Most of these would make great math stations! (Many of the examples have links to PDFs, SMART Notebooks or other things you might need)

This picture shows a life-size idea for ten frames.  You might also consider having your students stand in the spaces of the ten frame for a more kinesthetic experience.  Dr. Nicki recommends using a shower curtain and duct tape.  I have found that plastic tablecloths hold up pretty well to kiddos standing/walking on them, too.   C

Number Bowling:  This game comes from What the Teacher Wants.  Students bowl the tennis ball and then figure out the combination that made 10.  I think you could play it with an addition or subtraction number sheet. Here is a recording sheet to help with subitizing and recording their game. C

Make Ten Bracelets:  This idea comes from Kindergarten Doodles.  You could use pipe cleaners as bracelets or beaded number lines of ten... C

Ten Frames Puzzles:  These ten frame puzzles are from FirstGradeTeacherLady.  P

Visualizing/Modeling Template:  This template has kids show the fact in a variety of ways.  Maybe you make a book of them for Make Ten facts...P

Make Ten games:  This doc contains three different "games" for making ten.  Each game requires a 10 sided die.  They can be played as an individual or with a partner.  A (but could be Concrete if you provided manipulatives)

Number Bonds Game: I have shared the number bonds link before, but this one focuses on making ten.  A great online challenge.  A

This video uses pictures, numbers, and music to teach.  P  

SMARTBoard Games: This doc has two different pages that you could use as a whole class to practice Make Ten Facts.  A

Once you think that a fact strategy has been conceptualized, try it out with story problems. This page is a start to some Make Ten story problems for your children to solve.  Consider including manipulatives and encourage drawings or number lines to show their thinking! P/A

In the end, our goal is to help kids see the relationship between a number and ten.  If you are interested in using subitizing in your classroom in a more systematic way, consider registering for these 3 free videos for some great professional development.  You can do them at a time that works for you. They are presented by Christina Tondevold, the Recovering Traditionalist.

If you have a colleague you think would like this post, please share. Do you have other ways you work to teach Make Ten facts?  Share in the comments.  :)

Developing a Growth Mindset

Looking to build that growth mindset in your students or even yourself?  Here are some ideas to help you get started... (some of them even come from right here in our own bulidings)

   

5B at Glenn Elementary

Student activity at Grove Elementary

Finally--Check out this  article by Valerie Strauss that was in the Washington Post in April.  It is called Stop telling kids you're bad at math.  You are spreading math anxiety 'like a virus.'