The Recovering Traditionalist

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iHeart Math Holiday Hop

I have the pleasure of linking up with several wonderful math bloggers for a month long holiday hop. We are excited about this collaboration because each day you can access a different blogger with great holiday tips and a special gift. Be sure to tune in everyday to read each blog post. By clicking on the […]

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 […]

K-2 PARCC Content Emphases and Frameworks

I have spent most of this week over in a school district near Portland, OR doing trainings for almost all of their Title 1 Kindergarten through 2nd grade teachers.  One of the activities we did together was investigating the Content Emphases (download it at the bottom of the linked page) for each grade level Kindergarten through […]

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 […]

Rainbow Loom® Math

The post below is one I’ve had in the works for a long time, but just haven’t had the time to do it.   The monthly REAL WORLD math blog link-up hosted by 4mulaFun, The Teacher Studio, Teaching to Inspire in 5th, and MissMathDork, has inspired me to dust off the post and finally finish it…hope you enjoy!   Okay, […]