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Fact Fluency Part 3: The Power of Subitizing

Have you ever had a student that when you put up 4 fingers and asked them “How many fingers do I have?” they had to count each finger one-by-one?  That happens way too often in early elementary classrooms.  Those children can count, but they are not subitizing and without being able to subitize a child […]

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Fact Fluency Part 2: Build Number Sense to Build Fact Fluency

Have you ever seen a 5th grade student count on their fingers to add 7 + 8?  Or a 6th grader doing repeated addition on their paper to solve 9 x 7?  If you haven’t, I can guarantee you’ve heard the stories from the upper grades teachers during staff meetings as they complain that “Kids […]

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Fact Fluency Part 1:  4 Types of Addition & Multiplication Facts

As I was looking over my presentation for this week at NCTM and getting sidetracked by checking Tweets about NCSM (which I didn’t get to attend this year), I saw a few tweets about Steven Leinwand and Patsy Kanter’s presentation at NCSM and how well it connects to my presentation for NCTM (tomorrow, 4/14) and […]

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5 Math Games That Decrease Your Prep Time

Many of you know that I am a HUGE proponent of using math games to build your students’ mathematical minds.  However, the biggest complaint is that math games take so much time to prepare and then you have to teach the new game to the kids before they can go off and play the game on […]

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How I Got My Daughter to Stop Writing 501 as 5001 in 10 Minutes

Writing numbers correctly is often a struggle for young kids.  Most kids can say the numbers but when they go to write them down the way we write numbers doesn’t align with how we say them.  This causes confusion in our students and is one of the reasons students lack place value.  In this post […]

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Christmas Math Center Activities 2014

I love Christmas.  I love it even more now that I have kids of my own.  I love seeing their faces light up on Christmas morning.  But one of my favorite things I get to do now is going into my children’s classrooms the last day before their Christmas break to do some Christmas Math […]

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Fly on Math Teacher’s Wall – Put the Value in Place Value

A group of math bloggers have gotten together to join forces in ‘squashing’ some math misconceptions.  For the inaugural blog hop we are tackling the big idea of Place Value.  So, read through my thoughts and then at the bottom is a link to another blogger and their thoughts on Place Value.   Before we start, […]

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