Ten Frames to the Rescue! Mastering Early Addition & Subtraction

Ten Frames to the Rescue! Mastering Early Addition & Subtraction

Put some fun back in your math practice with these giant ten frames!

Dan Meyer’s Three Act Math Tasks

Dan Meyer’s Three Act Math Tasks challenge students to make predictions, adapt to new information, and justify their conclusions. Get his full list of published tasks here!

Number Line Stairs: Fun and Simple Activity for Early Math

Number Line Stairs: Fun and Simple Activity for Early Math

O, how I love to follow the child! Our four-year-old’s new tricks have led to a fun game for him and his brother, and as usual, they’re learning every step of the way!

Free Digital Resources: Teaching Fractions, Decimals, & Percents

Free Digital Resources: Teaching Fractions, Decimals, & Percents

Fear the fraction no longer! These high-quality, FREE digital resources are just what you’re looking for.

Math Everywhere: Halloween Candy

Math Everywhere: Halloween Candy

My husband and I are not big candy eaters, so we’re a little uncertain about what to do with the post-Halloween pile of sugar sitting on our kitchen hutch. Our kids have not been very interested in eating it either,

Preschool Math: Compare Whole Numbers

Preschool Math: Compare Whole Numbers

What the hand does, the mind remembers.  — Maria Montessori Our son is really into card games lately.  He loves “Go Fish” and “War” especially, but while playing “War, he was having a tough time looking at the cards and

Math Everywhere: Division

Math Everywhere: Division

While preparing for our first family trip involving an airplane, we got to do a little hands-on math.  Our kids’ pediatrician suggested we bring gummy bears along for the flight to help avoid painful ear pressure during take-offs and landings.

Preschool Math: Making Groups of Ten

Preschool Math: Making Groups of Ten

Here’s a quick and fun activity to introduce pairs that add to ten — important math facts to memorize early!  We used our Unifix cubes, but Duplos, Legos, or any other connecting blocks would work as well. I made stacks

Tessellation Tip

Tessellation Tip

In order to keep them from crawling up the walls in their last week before summer vacation, I’ve given my seventh graders a tessellation project.  There are about ten million youtube videos explaining how to do this, so I won’t

Area of Mixed Polygons

Area of Mixed Polygons

In 7th grade math, we’re working on area.  We’ve gone through all of the basic formulas with careful attention to how they are related to one another — the triangle being half of a rectangle, the trapezoid being a combination