Teaching Ideas for Upper Elementary Grades 3-5
Do you ever use error analysis during math instruction? Have you ever had students catch your mistakes while teaching? You know the whole “I did that on purpose to see if you would catch it?” joke? This might be something… Read more5 Reasons I Love Error Analysis During Math Instruction
I want my students to master their math facts which means they need lots of multiplication and division fact practice. While this does have a heavy emphasis on memorization, the automaticity of basic math facts is necessary in order for… Read moreAmazing Resources For Multiplication And Division Fact Practice I Love
We want our students to be strong mathematicians with a conceptual understanding of the mathematical topics we teach. I believe that understanding math vocabulary is an important part of students’ overall math performance since understanding vocabulary helps develop students into… Read more4 Strategies to Develop a Strong Math Vocabulary with Upper Elementary Students
Focus on multiplication and division as inverse operation to help students develop a fuller understanding which allows for more flexibility.
As I get ready to teach my place value unit, I want to share some of my favorite place value ideas and activities I like to incorporate into my unit. One of my favorite parts of math instruction is providing… Read morePlace Value Ideas Third Graders Love and Learn From
Connecting arithmetic skills with state facts is an engaging way to make more time for cross curricular math and social studies practice that both my students and I love. Fit it all in with Cross Curricular Math and Social Studies… Read moreWhy I love Math Computation about the 50 States: Cross Curricular Math and Social Studies
Multiplication strategies seems to be the bulk of third grade math curriculum for my students. They work on understanding the meaning of multiplication and mastering multiplication facts with factors 0-12. Even after students understand multiplication in terms of “equal groups… Read more4 Multiplication Strategies That My Students Love