Question for Christina: Why is skip counting so hard?

I often get emails from teachers asking for advice on how to teach a certain concept and it is difficult for me to effectively discuss it with them via an email….I try my best but I’ve decided to use my blog as a way to elaborate in ways that I cannot in my emails.  So […]

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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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Subitize while #TMWYK

I so wish I would have had my camera at the ready this morning at the breakfast table!  I need to take Christopher Danielson’s advice and get Google Glass, but that’s a little out of my price range.  So I’m going to recreate what my kids said using the visuals below, but I can’t recapture […]

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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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What is the Proper Way to Show Numbers in a Ten Frame?

Ten Frames are amazing!  But after I presented today at my State’s Math Academy, I was thinking more about how you fill a ten frame and what reasoning each builds for kids.  For instance here are four different ways to show the amount 7 using ten frames:       So, how you represent numbers […]

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Talking Math With Your Kids #TMWYK

Okay, I’m stealing my title for this post from one of my favorite blogs out there; Talking Math With Your Kids.  My kids get A LOT of math talk in our household, more than they get read to.  In most households it is the other way around; more time is spent reading to the child […]

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What the Heck is a Rekenrek??

I am preparing for my presentation at the annual US Math Recovery conference and thought it would be a great time to post about one of my favorite math manipulatives for PreK through 2nd grade; the Rekenrek…which just so happens to be the focus of my presentation at the conference next week.  To start, here […]

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