I love the versatility of dry erase pockets! They are great for so many reasons; they are easy to prepare, easy to clean, durable, and students LOVE them! They are great to use for checking for understanding and guided practice. Students can hold them up like dry erase boards to quickly show you their work. Today I wanted to share a few of the First Grade Math Mats I created to use in dry erase pockets. They are great for whole group and small group instruction. Once the mats are introduced, they also make a great independent center! Add some simple math manipulatives and you are ready to go! In this activity, students use dominoes to work on the Commutative Property of addition (aka Turn-Around Facts). Students place the domino in the first spot, write the fact, flip the domino, and write the turn-around fact. You can walk around the room while students are working to quickly check their understanding of the activity. When students complete the mat, they erase it, grab another domino, and keep going! That is one of the great things about this mat, there is no "I'm finished!" The exact same activity is perfect for centers!!! With this mat, students record all the ways to Make Ten. All you need are two-sided counters. Students flip counters and record the different combinations. Use cubes to work on doubles. You can orally give the students a double to build with the cubes. Then they record the doubles fact. At a center, students can build and record different doubles, you could provide doubles flash cards, or they can make their own doubles. Students can put the "Fact-Family" in their house. Give students three numbers in a family to record at the top (triangle flash cards work perfect for this!). Then students write all four facts in the family. When they complete one fact family, they can grab another flash card and do another! Or you can use dominoes for the family! Students can practice their place value skills with this mat. Give students a number to build with place value blocks. They also record the number in tens and ones. When you are ready to move from the concrete to the representational stage of understanding, students can color the number with their dry erase markers on the mats. Students can also compare two numbers using place value! All you need are number cards to make a quick center. Give students a time to record in digital form, then have them draw the hands on the clock. Add a set of digital time cards and you have a center ready to go! Use dice to work on adding three numbers. Have students who are working at different levels? Add dice with larger numbers for easy differentiation! Another activity students can play for extended periods of time! These are just a few of my favorites! You can check out all of my First Grade Math Mats in my TPT store! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Mats-Write-and-Wipe-First-Grade-2946859

Are you looking for fun, hands-on activities to teach factoring quadratics or the quadratic formula? In this post are lots of ideas and free resources for helping students when teaching lessons on quadratics.

Build number sense by reinforcing the math strategy of making ten. Teach students to make 10 to add and strengthen their mental math skills.

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Last year I started to work my way through the Waldorf Math curriculum by myself. These are the last few pages from my math "main lesson book". The first block in a Waldorf math curriculum is a Quality of Numbers block. In this block a teacher would guide students through the exploration of "one-ness", "two-ness" and the qualities of numbers up to 7, 10 or 12. Students look for examples in their lives of things that come in that number and cosmic "meanings" of those numbers are brought to the student in an age appropriate manner. I chose to explore 0 through 10 and create a Main Lesson Book page for each number. Eight is one of my favorite numbers, it feels solid and square to me despite the curves of our Arabic numeral 8. The main association I have with eight is the eight solar festivals of the Wheel of the Year. These alternate as doors and peaks of the season and mark the growing and fading of the sun's light each year. Eight is also octopuses, spiders, the compass rose and the eight notes of an octave. The numeral eight is an infinity sign turned on it's end... goes round and round and round and never stops. That's magic, too, isn't it?

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Build number sense by reinforcing the math strategy of making ten. Teach students to make 10 to add and strengthen their mental math skills.

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Last year I started to work my way through the Waldorf Math curriculum by myself. These are the last few pages from my math "main lesson book". The first block in a Waldorf math curriculum is a Quality of Numbers block. In this block a teacher would guide students through the exploration of "one-ness", "two-ness" and the qualities of numbers up to 7, 10 or 12. Students look for examples in their lives of things that come in that number and cosmic "meanings" of those numbers are brought to the student in an age appropriate manner. I chose to explore 0 through 10 and create a Main Lesson Book page for each number. Eight is one of my favorite numbers, it feels solid and square to me despite the curves of our Arabic numeral 8. The main association I have with eight is the eight solar festivals of the Wheel of the Year. These alternate as doors and peaks of the season and mark the growing and fading of the sun's light each year. Eight is also octopuses, spiders, the compass rose and the eight notes of an octave. The numeral eight is an infinity sign turned on it's end... goes round and round and round and never stops. That's magic, too, isn't it?

I am, as many of you know, a great fan of the games produced by the good folks at BEAM. They are conceptual, strategic and focus on the big math ideas across the grades. One of my favourites is …

Get the Training Several years ago, my 3rd grade team had the honor of piloting the Eureka math curriculum (Engage NY). We did not receive any training on this program that year. We struggled. Honestly it felt like we were treading water all year and there were several times that we started taking in some

This pattern is for mathematically ideal crochet spheres of different sizes! There are 10 different sizes in this pattern. Turns out the number of stitches in each row scales with sin(theta), where theta is the polar angle of the sphere. I haven’t made all of these spheres myself (that would just be too much spherey-ness for me!) but the pattern for each sphere is based on calculations that I’ve made. Please let me know if you try one out and the pattern doesn’t work out the greatest! If you want more information about how I came up with the pattern, you can check out my blog. Enjoy the spheres! *** Update: There was an error spotted on the 10 Row Sphere, so I have updated to a new version on 03/25/10. Oops #2 located on the 16 Row Sphere. Updated again 03/27/10

First grade is a very important year where students are building a strong foundation in their journey for mathematical proficiency. One of the most

I am linking up with my sweet friend, Marsha at A Differentiated Kindergarten to share a little about my math stations. Here is a quick picture to show you how I have organized my math stations in the past: The cart was actually re-purposed from holding an overhead projector (yes, I not only had one…but...

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Several bloggers have gotten together to share more ideas for using your craft supplies to learn. We worked on rounding numbers to the nearest ten with craft sticks and it's been a favorite activity for the last week, so I know that your kids will love it too!

My preschooler recently turned five, and his newfound maturity caused him to start asking to do math. He is not eager to learn to read, but math is something he really wants to learn! I decided to start at the beginning with a preschool math activity on one-to-on correspondence. This skill allows children to understand

It has almost been 2 weeks since I first met my new little firsties. I gotta say they are cuties and keep me laughing! We are finally getting procedures down and things are getting better. Here are a few random pictures from our first few weeks together. I get to teach another darling granddaughter this year! Got the cute frame idea from tons of other bloggers. We read the book "Don't Eat the Teacher". So now we are playing a game called 'Don't Eat Mrs. Peterson'. I made a card with different pictures of ME. The kids put a skittle on each picture. One player turns his back while the others choose one of the pictures to be 'IT'. Then he starts picking the candy off the pictures. When he touches the picture that is 'IT', the others yell, "Don't Eat Mrs. Peterson"! Meet with our 6th grade buddies. We will read with them twice a week. Absolute cute-ness in the library. Mrs. Adams has decorated with a Dr. Seuss theme this year. My kiddos LOVE it! This is a quilted Dr. Seuss wall hanging she made. ADORABLE! Dr. Seuss sayings are all around the room along with a banner of book pages. I put a mirror above my sink and every week I change the saying. You can't see it very well but it says: "I AM nice to everyone". White board marker write and erase really well on mirrors! Here's my new C.A.F.E. board. I LOVE CAFE and Daily 5. My kiddos are doing really well on their stamina. We are up to 6 minutes for reading to self. We learned about number sentences this week and did a fun activity called 'Magic Number Sentences'. Magic Number Sentences is an activity I got several years ago at Core Academy. I've tweaked it a bit over the years and my kids love the magic. I put it together in a FREE packet for ya' all with new cards and a new recording sheet! (The cards in the picture above are the old one) You can buy plastic magic hats at the party store, make some magic fabric bags, or use the labels I made and glue them to a paper bag. Click HERE to download a PDF. I don't know about all of you but I am looking forward to a 3 day weekend! I hope you all have a great one! Thanks for stopping by.

My preschooler recently turned five, and his newfound maturity caused him to start asking to do math. He is not eager to learn to read, but math is something he really wants to learn! I decided to start at the beginning with a preschool math activity on one-to-on correspondence. This skill allows children to understand

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We started into our Data Management unit this week. I LOVE this unit! It's so easy to integrate it into our other subjects and interests, and the students always experience a lot of success with it. And this year, our first graphing lessons really POPPED ;). As our diagnostic activity, I gave each student a sticky note and asked them to write down all the different graph types they could think of. We posted the stickies on the board, and made a tally chart of the frequency of each type of graph. Together, we built a bar graph, and discussed all the different components of the graph. I made a large note and graph on chart paper, and students each completed their own. The next day we turned this graph into a journal entry for our math journals ... we made pop-up bar graphs - and they turned out AWESOME!!! The kids thought this was so cool (and so did I). For time-saving purposes (and to allow for a little mastery) we used the same data as the previous day. We discussed intervals for both graphs the next day. We completed a bar graph activity that had the students incorporating intervals into their bar graphs. I asked the students how many markers they had in their desks (can you believe one of my students had 90 markers!!!) and we collected all the data. After that, the students worked independently to complete their own graphs. When they were finished, we had a gallery walk for our reflection. Students filled out the top half of their reflection sheets (success criteria checklist and reflection) before they went on the gallery walk. For the gallery walk, students put their completed graphs on their desks. They then walked around the classroom with their reflection sheets to come up with 3 questions / or things they noticed to ask the whole group when we reassembled. This was a lot of fun - and I LOVED some of the questions they came up with. It let to great class discussions about choosing the most appropriate scale and intervals, and how to best show the range of data on a bar graph. When they were finished their gallery walk and class discussion, students had to fill in the last part of their reflection. My students had so much fun with these activities, I thought yours may enjoy it, too. I made up a graphing resource for these lessons and posted it at my TPT store. Creating Pop-Up Bar Graphs contains 2 different bar graph activity ideas, instructions and a template for creating the 3D model, and instructions and handout for the gallery walk and reflection. You can click on the picture below to preview it. Creating 3D Bar Graphs I've also added a few more resources to my TPT store in the past few weeks: Genre Question Fans - Perfect for guided reading groups, read alouds, partner reading time, genre minilessons, etc. Resource contains 80 different questions to support the reading of different genres: fictional narrative, personal narrative, poetry, persuasive text, and informative text. Literary Question Fans - Perfect for guided reading groups, read alouds, partner reading time, reading minilessons, etc. Resource contains 80 different questions to support the reading of different literary elements: author's purpose, characterization, figurative language, point of view, and tone and mood. Story Elements Cootie Catchers - Different cootie catchers for studying story elements: plot, setting, character, conflict, point of view, and theme. My kids LOVE using these for review after independent reading or guided reading groups. And don't forget I have a fun little FREE Halloween Writing Activity in case you're trying to keep your kiddos busy (and productive) in the next few days. Just click below to download your own copy. Happy Sunday!!! I'm heading back outside with my kiddos to enjoy this beautiful fall day ... and maybe rake up a few leaves. Interactive Math Journal Interactive Math Journal 2 Building Better Math Responses Math Concept Posters InLinkz.com

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This free number fish printable is a fun addition to play time. You can use the little fish as counting cards, and include them in sensory and imaginary play to fill your child’s environment with numbers. Number fish free printable math counting cards When we include numbers in our child’s environment we’re helping […]