Grab a TON of FREE Math Mania Games to strengthen your students' addition & subtraction! Snag easy printable math games for 1st & 2nd grade!
Grab a TON of FREE Math Mania Games to strengthen your students' addition & subtraction! Snag easy printable math games for 1st & 2nd grade!
Grab a TON of FREE Math Mania Games to strengthen your students' addition & subtraction! Snag easy printable math games for 1st & 2nd grade!
Grab a TON of FREE Math Mania Games to strengthen your students' addition & subtraction! Snag easy printable math games for 1st & 2nd grade!
Grab a TON of FREE Math Mania Games to strengthen your students' addition & subtraction! Snag easy printable math games for 1st & 2nd grade!
Friends... so sorry for my looooooooooooooong absence. I do have an excuse, but I won't waste precious blogging time with it! I'm back for a quick post on Partners of 10! Indiana has been hit pretty hard this Winter, so we've been super busy trying to squeeze in as much as we can with limited time! Our math focus this week was narrowed to focus primarily on Bonds/Partners of 10! First off, If you haven't introduced your kiddos to the Partners of 10 Rainbow... what are you waiting for?!?? This is SUCH an awesome visual reminder of all the different ways to make 10! I forgot to take a picture of my chart, but we made one very similar to Teri's from A Cupcake for the Teacher. Then we used her adorable freebie to reinforce the skill the next day! Click the freebie below to head over to her blog and pick it up! The next day, we got busy using a Ten Frame to show our Partner's of 10. Not sure who had the original idea to make a GIANT ten frame for the kids to stand in... but THANK YOU (if it was your idea, please claim it so I can link to you!) The kids LOVED this activity and it was such an engaging way for them to reinforce this skill! I made a ten frame out of masking tape on the floor (sorry, nothing fancy) and called a few kids up by name to come stand in the 10 frame. We discussed how many spaces were filled, then we counted how many spaces were empty. Then, I matched their tens frame up on a teaching chart. I just drew a large ten frame and used post-it notes to fill in the boxes. I did this so that when the kids sat back down to record their answers, they would still have a visual of the ten frame. Students used the visual to shade in a ten frame and write the Partner of 10 equation that matched. I got this recording sheet from the fabulous Printable Princess. It is part of her free winter pack and worked amazingly with this activity. Head to her store to pick up the freebie and be sure to Go Follow Her on Facebook! So there you have it! It's nice to be back in blogging world. I hope to be back soon! :)
Need a few new math games? Keep reading - I've got lots of freebies to share today! Our district uses Everyday Math...and it's tricky! My biggest frustration is that kids rarely get a chance to learn and practice a skill completely before they're asked to move onto a new concept! I've made a bunch of games to reinforce the basic addition and subtraction skills! First up is Addition Hunt! To make, I simply printed out the colored cards {b&w are included} and taped them up around the room. They walked around the room searching for the problems to write in the corresponding box. It is a great way to work on skills and get some energy out! They LOVED it and begged for a Subtraction Hunt, too! Another fun game we play is Connect Four! Many kids are already familiar with the concept of the board game, so they were excited to play the math version! To liven it up, I simply printed the game onto bright paper. One of these days I plan to laminate the gameboard! I've included an addition and subtraction version for you to use! For subtraction, I wrote numbers the numbers (5-10) onto blank dice so the numbers would be big enough to subtract! You can buy blank dice {here} or pick up blank foam cubes at the dollar store! I also introduced Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' to the kids. To play, students take turns rolling two dice and adding the numbers. They cross out the sum. The player to cross out the final number is the winner! Again, I'll probably copy this game board onto bright colored paper to make it a little more exciting and laminate so the kids can use dry erase markers instead! Another of my favorite games is Numbers Undercover and Doubles Undercover. We play this game A LOT during math time to work on those addition skills! I've even it home for homework, too! Want all of these games? As I've mentioned before, our math program is so goofy that some lessons are short and some take forever. Some concepts are easily grasped by kids and some take a bit more time to master. So, I love to have a stockpile of games for kids to play as they're finishing up their work! You can read more about my Math Games Galore {here} and score a couple more freebies there, too! Hope you can use all these games!
For each four-digit number on this second grade math worksheet, kids determine the place value of each digit. Download to complete online or as a printable!
Free Download of Cover the Camel Puzzle. Can you arrange the given pieces to completely cover the image of the camel?
Teaching function notation in math can be tricky! Algebra students will love this activity while taking notes or filling in their foldables.
How do you use interactive math notebooks in the secondary classroom? This post gives practical tips for how we use a 3-part INB system in our classes.
This is an updated FREEBIE for Number Sense practice. It is FULLY EDITABLE in Power Point so you can customize it how you wish.The font you see in the preview is "KG Miss Kindergarten". I did not pay for the license to use it for this product so it will not show up as that when you download it unles...
Learn how to guide math talk with these essential math talk moves. Grab a free classroom poster to use with your students to get you started!
Words Used in Math Word Problems Key Words Used in Math Word Problems Addition Add All together Altogether And Combined How many in all How much In all Increased by Plus Sum Together Total Subtraction Minus Lost Change Difference Fewer Fewer than How many are loft Need to Reduce Subtract Take away Remain Multiplication By Double Every Factor of Increased by Multiplied by Of Product Times Triple Division As much Cut up Each group has Equal sharing Half How many in each Parts Per Percent Quotient of Ratio of Separated Share something equally
Perfect for budding bakers, this worksheet helps kids learn about cups, pints, and quarts.
How to use the ladder method to find GCF, LCM, and factoring, in upper elementary and middle school math class.
Free long division strategy
Higher order thinking math tasks and activities for first grade. Students challenge themselves with these fun tasks that get them thinking about math.
Try this weight guessing game to help your second grader get to know liters.
Ideas for teaching proportional relationships (7.RP.2) - including activities and common misconceptions to avoid in your math classroom.
Prepare for an upcoming measurement quiz with this handy review sheet that covers topics from using a ruler to converting quarts to cups.
Singapore math is a framework, based on extensive research, that incorporates problem solving, reasoning, and number sense. Learn more!
using Desmos in the High School Math classroom
We do math problem solving in my kindergarten class everyday! I will probably write a lot about it this year, so stay tuned! So I thought I would start off showing how I set up my Problem-Solving Notebooks (some people call them math journals). I use a notebook so I can keep all of the kids' problem-solving together in one place. I find that when I use loose papers, they just end up stuffed in backpacks and crumpled on the bottom of backpacks. Besides, It's amazing to look through them and see the kids' growth over the course of a year! So how, you ask, do parents know what we're doing in math? I send the journals home once or twice a quarter so parents can flip through them. I constantly communicate with my parents through e-mails, my classroom blog and even Twitter to let them know what we're doing and how they can reinforce what we're learning at home. And I use the journals during conferences to show parents evidence of how their child is performing in math. So, where to start... 1. Choose your notebook. It's really up to your own personal preferences (and what's on your school...
Try this weight guessing game to help your second grader get to know liters.
40-60% of students with dyslexia also struggle with math. Just as with teaching reading, there are effective strategies for teaching math to kids with dyslexia.
Over the last few weeks, my kindergartners have been learning about Three-Dimensional shape . Here are some of our favorite stations. ...
Depth of Knowledge Levels, This is a tool that can be used to facilitate a conversation around depth of knowledge levels 1 through 3.
This Handful of M&M's math game makes a perfect math center for teachers who are trying to engage their students while practicing place value of larger numbers or multiplying by tens. This resource was created so students could practice working on mental math, expanded form, identifying the values of multi-digit numbers, and practice multiplying by tens independently while I worked with other students. File Type PDF (Acrobat) Document File Be sure that you have an application to open this file type before downloading and/or purchasing.
by Gina Wilson 7th - 10th Grade I use this graphic organizer to review the exponent rule concepts right before I play my Exponen...
This post may contain affiliate links for your shopping convenience. View our full disclosure policy HERE. Thanks to Sarah at First Grader At Last for hosting today's book study chapter. Chapter 12 is about Project-Based and Problem-Based Instruction. When I first started reading it, I loved the story she told about the high school students who decided to start a Natural History Museum for their county. They researched it, built it, wrote letters, were tour guides and more. It was amazing and inspiring. And not so practical in a 2nd grade classroom like where I taught. So I was reading the chapter thinking, there are so many great ideas in here but they are designed for older students. And I am not one to every say kids can't do something because of their age. I am all about setting high expectations and the students will rise to the occasion. I just struggled to remember - Did I not do any project based instruction in my class??? My conclusion was that I probably didn't do enough projects in the classroom. Each subject was kind of its own thing...math workshop, writing workshop, reading workshop, etc. Because we were forced to get through our science and social curriculum so fast and get our kids to pass these intense district assessments (don't get me started on that) I feel like I stuck to the curriculum and we had very little time for extra exploration or projects. Now don't get me wrong, we would still do cross curricular activities when they were relevant. Once my students learned to write letters, we would incorporate letter writing in social studies, reading and science as often as possible. When we learned to write nonfiction text, we would research animals or concepts from science and write about them. We just didn't do any huge project like the ones described in the pages on Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites. That is something I would definitely change if I was back in the classroom. I would work to find a way to create a relevant, meaningful project that got my students excited about learning. The part of the chapter that I could really relate to was about teaching problem solving skills and using problem-based instruction. As I was reading this, two big areas of instructions came to mind - social skills and math. Those were two areas where we really focused on problem solving. At the beginning of each school year, I would spend a LOT of time teaching my second graders how to solve problems. Problems in the hallway, problems in the classroom, problems on the bus, problems on the playground. You name it, we covered it. We practiced different scenarios. We acted out how to solve a problem and the ever popular how NOT to solve a problem. We wrote about how we would solve problems. We learned strategies for solving problems. We made anchor charts for solving problems. I wanted to make sure my little ones were equipped to handle whatever second grade threw at them. Plus, then throughout the year, I could expect that they could solve a problem correctly because I knew they had been taught what to do. No excuses. We would review all of this, especially halfway through the year when they suddenly forget how we treat each other. I really think this helped set the tone of the class, a sense of community and the expectation and encouragement that each one of them could solve problems. I even created a freebie with some of the activities that we did at the beginning of the year. Click the picture below to download it from my TpT store. Another area where we really worked on solving problems was in math. We worked on solving word problems daily. We created a little format to help them solve the problem and show their thinking in multiple ways. Click to download a free copy At the top we would cut and paste story problems from a variety of sources or come up with our own. We always wanted there to be just one problem at a time to focus on. Some years they glued this into their math journal, some years they went home each day, some years we sent them home a week at a time, some years the students drew these boxes into their math journals. The format changed a bit, but the process was the same. 1. Draw a picture 2. Use numbers to solve 3. Write a solution sentence (using words and a correct label) 4. Explain your thinking (metacognition) This was hard for them at first. We really went step by step and modeled for weeks until they were clear what the expectations were. Our district was big on explaining your own thinking. Tricky for second graders but with some practice they got better at it. Because we did this daily, they had much better problem solving skills and during math workshop when I posed a problem to them, they were much better equipped to not only solve it but to discuss it and explain it to others. Then we learned how to properly agree/disagree with one another and add on to what someone else said. Definitely good life long skills. *Affiliate links included for your shopping convenience.
Hi friends! It's so hard to believe that the last time I blogged was the weekend before school started and I'm now HALFWAY through th...
Happy Friday!! Yesterday I talked about different types of lesson planning sheets, and even gave you a copy of my lesson planning sheets. Another thing I used last year was a Strategy Group Planning Sheet for Reading. I came up with the idea towards the middle to end of the year, and I wish I had come up with it earlier. This planning page is a quick reference page that you can either keep in your lesson plan book, or you can keep it in your anecdotal reading records binder (I'll talk about this at a later date). This page will give you a way to plan your strategy/skill groups and what days you want to meet with them. It also has a space for writing down your individual conference schedule. Not only will it help you plan out your week as far as your groups and conferences go, but it will also keep you on track during the week so that nothing gets forgotten. Last year, I only used this template for reading. However, this year I am going to try it with math and writing as well! At the bottom of the post, I've uploaded all 3 templates for you. If these don't fit your needs, just use my idea and create your own! :) How to Use These Templates This coming year I am going to be more intentional about my grouping. Last year I based grouping mainly upon DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) testing (at the beginning of the year) and then my observations of what my students needed. I also based them upon our school's testing system (NWEA- a computer based test given to the students 3 times a year), and Study Island diagnostic information. These were all fine and dandy, but I felt like I was missing something. At the end of the year, as I was considering how I could make grouping even more focused, I came up with the idea to give my kids a 10 question quiz each week in reading, writing, and math which will cover what I taught that week. That way, I can break down their answers and see which kids need help in which areas. Then I will group the students with the same needs together, and I will have my groups for the following week! Ok...don't get scared! I know that sounds like a lot of extra work. But I've found a way to do it a little easier. Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) is friggin awesome! Did you know you can create a survey with multiple choice and short answer questions? I am going to use this survey to create my quizzes each Friday. Students will take the quiz on the computer, and then Google Drive kindly breaks down all the info for me... how sweet! :) I got the idea from one of my favorite math teaching blogs, The Creative Apple. The link is to her series on how to set up Guided Math. This blows my mind. I totally wish I had read this before I started teaching in an elementary classroom. I love the Guided Math system, and definitely plan to implement it this year. Sorry for the tangent... but I just had to share! Anywho, from the info provided by Google Drive, I will then create my strategy/skill groups and also will see what students may need even more help (during an individual conference) than just a strategy group. I will do a whole post later on about how to use the survey document on Google Drive. So, does that kind of give you an idea of how to use these templates? How do you group for instruction? UPDATE: 8/12/14 I have uploaded all of the FREE templates to my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. You can now access the same great free templates by clicking here: Ashley Stout's Teachers Pay Teachers Store. I have also had many requests to make the templates editable as these exact templates may not fit everyone's schedules. You can find these templates at my Teachers pay Teachers Store by clicking HERE. Thanks! :) Mahalo for reading, :) Ashley ------------------------------------- P.S. Did you know that I started my own company, Camp Partridge? ⛺️ Camp Partridge offers online camps for children and teens ages 10-16 who want to be digital creators and authors! ⛺️ Camp Partridge offers online courses for parents struggling with remote learning. ⛺️ Camp Partridge offers resources for your classroom! I would be honored if you would share Camp Partridge with people you know who need or would enjoy our camps and courses! 🧡
A types of graphs reference resource from measurement, time, money, and data section of the Small Group & Intervention Math Kit.
