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Number Sense Assessment

I’ve been working on a few books to give teachers (and parents) activities to help build number sense and develop flexibility with their addition facts.  It is one of my goals for the summer to complete them, but in the meantime I will be posting an activity each week.  This isn’t just to get you […]

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Card Games to Develop Number Sense

I think almost everyone who teaches early elementary has heard about Make 10 Go Fish to help develop number sense around the benchmark number of 10.  But have you heard of Make Teen Go Fish?  Towards the end of the school year I got to attend a 2 day workshop by Illustrative Mathematics.  One of the […]

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Savvy Subitizing Activity

This week for my Number Sense post I decided to share a set of cards that I developed to play a game adapted from the card game Ratuki®.  I love playing Ratuki® with my 6 YO, it is a great subitizing activity, but I wish the amounts shown on the cards went up higher and […]

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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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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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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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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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