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Building Productive Parent-Teacher Relationships for Math Learning

As the semester draws to a close, take time to evaluate how your parent-teacher relationships are impacting math learning in your classroom and how you can improve them going...

How to Improve Mathematical Discourse in Your Classroom

It has been difficult for me to learn how to stimulate vibrant discussions about mathematics among students. I realized very early in my teaching career that in order to get...

Free PDF Holiday Math Worksheets for K–6 (Winter & Christmas)

As the holidays approach it’s always nice to come up with some themed problems for your students to solve in math class. I’m excited to offer these sets of holiday math...

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Math Test-Taking Strategies Kit

Grades 1–6

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Math Land Fluency Board Game

Grades 1–6

Gingerbread House STEAM Activity– Math Connections

If you are like me, you are wracking your brain for a holiday-themed STEAM activity for your class. There are several possibilities for non-religious themes. This blog post...

Using Student Data to Inform Math Instruction

Teachers wear many hats: facilitator, counselor, advocate, nurse, coach, motivator, comedian. . . the list goes on. One critical role that rarely makes it onto this list is...

Polya’s Problem-Solving Process: Finding Unknowns Elementary & Middle School

In this article, we'll explore how a focus on finding “unknowns” in math will lead to active problem-solving strategies for Kindergarten to Grade 8 classrooms. Through the...

Math In Real Life– Strategies for Planning Lessons Involving Real-World Contexts

When are we going to use this? Why are we learning this? Why can’t I just use a calculator? If you’ve ever been asked these questions by your math students, then this article...

5 Math Activities that Promote Collaborative Learning in the Classroom

Getting students to interact in the classroom is the call, and at the same time, it’s a challenge for our lesson planning! Collaborative math activities in the classroom can...

[FREE] March Madness Math Worksheets, Grades 1–6

Let students get in on the bracket battle fun with this March Madness math game! Students will use knowledge of place value to compare numbers, and with a bit of luck...

FUN Math and Poetry Activities for Students

Are you looking for fun math and poetry activities for your K–8 students? This April you can have students celebrate National Poetry Month in the classroom by creating poetry...

8 Ways to Compare Fractions in the Late Elementary Grades

How do you compare fractions in the late elementary grades? In this post, I want to share a collection of methods that you can use with students, in Grades 3–5, to compare...

Practice Multiplication and Division Fact Families Using Arrays

Making sure that every child is solid in his or her multiplication and division facts is critical to students’ success in their later coursework and in life itself. Though I...

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