Student learning is no accident!
It took me years to figure out how to teach multiplying fractions so that students could conceptualize a part of a part. I learned that the traditional algorithm had to take a back seat to drawing and color coding models. When teaching this unit, I’ve found that the most important tool for my students- is sharpened colored pencils. We draw… Read More
Every year, many of my students struggle to subtract mixed numbers when regrouping is needed. Flipping my instruction around subtracting mixed numbers has made a HUGE difference! Once I have initially launched the concept, students work through problems at their own pace. First, they attempt a problem independently. Next, they click on the problem within a digital worksheet and watch… Read More
A while back I took stock of what we were doing as a math department to improve kids’ math fluency. It seemed that every year we had a chunk of kids who came up to sixth grade with amazing fact fluency. We had another chunk who fought with basic addition and multiplication much like struggling readers fought with multisyllabic words…. Read More
In the next few posts, I’m going to focus on Differentiating Instruction in the Math Classroom. I will give you three strategies you can use immediately in the lessons you already have planned- to reach all of those kids! I promise not to ask you to do ANYTHING that wastes your time. I promise to only save you time.
If you’re thinking about fractions, you might be a 5th grade teacher… Thanks to the Common Core State Standards, fifth grade now throws the wildest fraction party on the block! I taught 6th grade math back when that was fraction central, and I learned 3 key things along the way. They have been just applicable in the 5th grade classrooms… Read More
If teaching fifth and sixth graders has taught me anything, it’s that fractions and decimals can be ABSTRACT and TRICKY… and that kids have to be developmentally ready to perform operations on them. The good news is- the standards aren’t encouraging us to get kids to add, subtract, multiply and divide 5/32 and 16/71! We make equivalent fractions as a… Read More
👀Teaching math to multiple levels doesn’t have to be TERRIFYING!?!
🦇Use one of my Halloween themed choice boards to provide three levels of bone chilling challenge!
👻 Self-checking student answer key creates independent routines so you can run a small group or conference with students.
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Update... it’s WORKING!!!!!
I’ve been sending about 1/3 of a class an email on their Distance Learning Day with silly directions like:
Email me a picture of a pumpkin today with “Boo” as the subject of the email.
Whoever follows the directions finds a prize on their desk in the morning. I say nothing 😳😳😳
More kids are seeing their emails!!!
Try it and tell me how it goes!!
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Attention Hybrid Teachers:
💻Anyone else having trouble getting work from students when they go home and have a Distance Learning day?
🤞🏼Crossing my fingers that this helps my students who are struggling to get work done.
☎️Called parents and got them on board after walking kids through it today. REALLY hoping they bring their kids back to the organizer during the day!!
🦄🌈I’m ALSO going to send some friendly emails to kids and give prizes to anyone who responds (SHHHH!!!). It’ll be a surprise 😳
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Writer’s Workshop 2.0
It’s a strange year. I’ve thought ELA “curriculum” until my brain hurt. Let me save you from that stress.
Hybrid? Distance? In person with wild restrictions? It’s going to be DIFFERENT.
How about this? How about we ELA teachers just focus on getting them reading and writing. And LOVING it. That’s more than enough, and a miracle during most typical school years.
This year let’s REALLY get to know them as readers AND writers. Let’s make sure they know we think they are cut out for these challenges. Let’s make sure they know we are in their corner.
Whether we teach this way for a month or until the end of the year- let’s make sure these kids know we’re here and we are amazed by them every day.
I just updated my digital writer’s notebook resources to include speaker notes in my introduction slide deck and a first writing prompt. Grab them all free in my profile.
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