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How to Teach Long Division So That Their Answers Are Accurate

How to Teach Long Division So That Their Answers Are Accurate

February 16, 2021

Teaching Long Division. I can almost feel the pain just typing the words. I think I have some residual PTSD from erasing a hole through my paper in Ms. Donahue’s fourth grade class in the 80’s. Guessing wrong how many times 37 “go-zin-ta” 566… and not knowing until the end of a traumatic subtraction exercise complete with WAY too much… Read More

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Video Math Lessons Help Students Self-Assess

Video Math Lessons Help Students Self-Assess

January 19, 2021

One of the most challenging aspects of teaching math is assessing each student’s level of understanding. It feels like it changes minute by minute- and there’s no neon ticker scrolling over their heads! I was shocked when I realized that the video math lessons I was already making, might actually help with assessment. My biggest fear, when teaching new concepts, is… Read More

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How to Teach Multiplying Fractions

How to Teach Multiplying Fractions

April 26, 2020

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

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Subtracting Mixed Numbers with Video Lessons

Subtracting Mixed Numbers with Video Lessons

April 19, 2020

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

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Fact Fluency and Number Sense in Sixth Grade

Fact Fluency and Number Sense in Sixth Grade

April 17, 2019

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

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Engaged in Math Class

Engaged in Math Class

February 14, 2019

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.

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For years I printed the game boards on card stock and used them in 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀. Every year, kids would beg to take a set home to play with their families- the competition was FIERCE. ⁣
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Sip some tea and give it a whirl yourself, "they'll all get it. Just not on the same day or in the same way." Breathe out. 

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💪🏻Kids use the cards they need to strengthen conceptual knowledge. Need visuals? Great- there’s a deck of cards for that. Graduating from visuals? Lovely, grab the other deck and challenge yourself!

🧠Comparing the fraction values grows fraction sense. It’s unavoidable.

🗣️Math language is natural and embedded. 

♟️Three different games means at home or at school means print once and play all year. 

🎲The cards themselves make AMAZING manipulatives to whip out during any fraction activity.

🥽No contact aport. Everyone can have their own set!

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Yesterday I finished making dinner a little too la Yesterday I finished making dinner a little too late and my kids were HANGRY. Even though they had “helped” (🤦🏼‍♀️🙄😂) make this favorite dish, there was a lot of whining, some peanut butter toast and maybe someone threatened moving to someplace that only had bananas to eat.. 🤷🏼‍♀️

🌈Tonight however, dinner was ready (AKA reheated) at 4:50, topped with a ketchup smile or Mr. 4 and a corn and carrots smile for Mr. 5, and served with KNIVES!!! 🍽

What a difference a day (and an hour) can make!! No one was getting a knife yesterday 😂

Dinner was lentil shepherds pie with broccoli, corn and the most delicious mashed potatoes on top. The secret is warmed lite coconut milk flavored with garlic and salt. SOOOO creamy and no coconut taste, I promise!

We had @dreenaburton ‘s super quick chocolate chia pudding for dessert and they pretty much licked their bowls clean.

What’s your secret to getting everyone in their happy place for a meal? Knives , the early bird special and smily faces work wonders over here!!

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Tag your teacher besties! I know it may FEEL lik Tag your teacher besties! 

I know it may FEEL like Thursday, but somehow- it’s only Monday😳

We’ll be fine, since we have such AMAZING teacher friends to lean on!

🌈Whether it’s the teacher down the hall that always leaves you a copy of something awesome on the way back from the copier...

🌈Or your co-teacher, who makes you feel like you two are running a talk show, not a Google Meet when you (virtually) blast in unannounced...

🦄THESE are our people!!! And this job would NOT be as fun without them!! 

Have a great week, everyone! Spread some teacher love😘
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For each “bold woman” and “exceptional man” featured, there is one page of informational text paired with a portrait on the facing page. 

I’ve finally decided how I’ll use these. I’m going to do a jigsaw. I’ll provide the same pages (about one person) to 3 students in a class. This will mean 7-8 different readings will be distributed in class. Students will independently read and annotate their text for:

📓New/interesting vocabulary
😳Surprising/shocking info
✏️Evidence of leadership
💡Talent or Genius
👀Connections to self/ world/history

Students will get into expert groups to discuss their notes. Via Google Meet, breakout groups will get together to discuss the text that they ALL read. They’ll add to their notes!

Jigsaw Time: New breakout groups will form with students who all read different texts. They’ll each share and as a small group they’ll discuss. 

Exit Ticket: How was your person’s experience similar to or different from another person in your Jugsaw group? I will share this question before they get into their groups do they know their focus.

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Only teachers get it. Only teachers do it all day. Only teachers get it. Only teachers do it all day. (If you are a parent at home- I see you teaching👀)

The level of patience teachers greet their homeroom with at 7:45AM is pretty amazing. Sometimes when I’m in the hall in the morning greeting kids I can feel it. This almost superhuman positive energy ball rolling through the building. 

And I think, how can anyone have a bad day here? This place is amazing! And by 2:45... just enough of that energy remains to get those kids onto the right busses, and collapse at desks to prepare for tomorrow. 

And I thinks it’s this. This directions thing. It’s a real energy suck. Hey kids, here’s what we’re going to do! I’m so excited about it that I wrote it here on the board too. Let’s read it together. Johnny, will you tell us in your own words what we’ll be doing? Hey, Alice!! Take a look in Google Classroom, can you see where I posted the directions? Great! If you click on them, a voice memo I made will read them to you! Isn’t that great?? Let’s get started. 

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🤦🏼‍♀️And then the hand. Sometimes it’s after everyone’s been “working” for a while. Sometimes it’s right away. It doesn’t matter. 

🌈Tag a teacher who gives directions well! ❤️ This isn’t the year we will fix this. 🙄 But we can be kinder to ourselves about it! 🦄
🦄Do you wish you could sit RIGHT next to that s 🦄Do you wish you could sit RIGHT next to that student and walk him through a few division problems?

💡That’s one of the reasons I created Guide Me Math Video Lessons. Some students are ready to zoom forward, while some need to see that problem a few more times. 

📝The idea is students work out a problem on their own and then watch the solution strategy video as a way to check their work. 

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1. Students are exposed to rich vocabulary. 
2. Students rewatch the confusing parts until they feel confident... privately!
3. Students stop themselves from practicing solving problems the WRONG way.

👀Go take a look at all the topics in my Write Solutions TPT store. This Partial Quotients Division Guide Me Pack is brand new. 

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Tired of hearing “Mommmm can I have another snac Tired of hearing “Mommmm can I have another snack???” (Right after you fed them!!!)

My kids eat oatmeal or cold cereal every morning and the secret to the cold cereal filling them up is hidden WAY at the bottom.

Can you guess what it is?

It’s oats! Good old, Old Fashioned Rolled Oats! 

My two sweet little, fast growing,  bottomless pits stay full the LONGEST after breakfast.

What’s you best quick meal hack to keep your kids full and not begging for snack after snack after snack?!?!

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This is my mantra when 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.Sip some tea and give it a whirl yourself, "they'll all get it. Just not on the same day or in the same way." Breathe out. 5 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤:💪🏻Kids use the cards they need to strengthen conceptual knowledge. Need visuals? Great- there’s a deck of cards for that. Graduating from visuals? Lovely, grab the other deck and challenge yourself!🧠Comparing the fraction values grows fraction sense. It’s unavoidable.🗣️Math language is natural and embedded. ♟️Three different games means at home or at school means print once and play all year. 🎲The cards themselves make AMAZING manipulatives to whip out during any fraction activity.🥽No contact aport. Everyone can have their own set!Head to my Write Solutions TPT store and grab your pack! #writesolutions#igconnect4edu#iteachtoo#tpt#5thgrade#5thgradeteacher#grade5#iteach5th#iteach5thgrade#iteach5 #fractionsarefun #homeschoolmath #differentiation #mathintervention #interventionist #upperelementary #mathgames #learninggame ...

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