
Building Math Confidence: Revisiting Familiar Tasks
When you have students that struggle, they spend an awful lot of time feeling frustrated with the lessons and other

When you have students that struggle, they spend an awful lot of time feeling frustrated with the lessons and other

Fractions can be tricky—not because students aren’t capable, but because misconceptions about fractions are incredibly common. In this Day 2

Today we kicked off our fraction work, and every time I start this unit I’m reminded just how important it

Today is my day to post over at Upper Elementary Snapshots, and I hope you’ll head over to read about

This week we are starting our “big multiplying” unit. Not facts–but “big” multiplying. Our standards state that our students must

If you missed my post the other day about using number lines to improve fractional reasoning, you might want to

It seems like I have picked a few topics lately that just don’t fit into one blog post! I wanted

How many of you have ever given your students a challenging problem and within SECONDS heard something like… “I don’t

So, in my last angles post I showed you how I got my angle studies kicked off with my students–how

Teaching Angles This week was “Angle Week” in my classroom…a week of intense work with angles to help us prepare