Category: Animated Posts

  • The Fraction Splat! Series

    The Fraction Splat! Series

    Fraction Splats! have arrived!   The original Splat! post rocketed up to over 35,000 hits  in less than a month, which included over 19,000 lesson downloads!  All 50 lessons in…

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  • Splat!

    Splat!

    Welcome to Splat!  You are only moments away from a VERY POWERFUL, highly interactive number sense strategy that can be used at any grade level! This post includes 50 (fifty!)…

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  • 3 Powerful Tile Strategies (and 40 new downloadable pages)

    3 Powerful Tile Strategies (and 40 new downloadable pages)

    3 Powerful Tile Strategies will equip you to provide number sense opportunities to your students that involve composing and decomposing either whole numbers or fractions.  This is a very flexible…

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  • Primary Tile Questions

    Primary Tile Questions

    Number sense is on display in Primary Tile Questions as students seek a wide variety of ways to add numbers and display their thinking.  You may find the connection between…

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  • Tiled Area Questions

    Tiled Area Questions

    Tiled Area Questions are designed to provide students with the opportunity to compose and decompose numbers.  This post primarily focuses on fractions.  If you are a K-2 teacher, you may really…

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  • Color the Cube Connectors

    Color the Cube Connectors

    After Introducing Cube Connectors this summer, I received some wonderful feedback about finding a way to allow the students to design their own cube connector combinations.  In this post, you’ll…

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  • Strategies for Using the Maze Hundreds Chart

    Strategies for Using the Maze Hundreds Chart

    After introducing the downloadable Maze Hundreds Chart yesterday, this post details some strategies for using the interactive chart in your classroom.  If you have not yet watched the first post,…

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  • The Maze Hundreds Chart

    The Maze Hundreds Chart

    The Maze Hundreds Chart is a resource that is surprisingly powerful and leads to some very unexpected learning opportunities. Much like The Animated Multiplication Table, this is a free, downloadable…

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  • The Second Cube Connector:  Pointing Out the Arrows

    The Second Cube Connector: Pointing Out the Arrows

    The Cube Connectors series, which began with this post, continues with a glimpse into the classroom of Hannah Yazzolino.  The resource which I shared on Twitter, and which Hannah used…

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  • Introducing Cube Connectors

    Introducing Cube Connectors

    Cube Connectors is a strategy that I’ve created – and would like to share with you.  This combination of images and descriptions will have your students seeking connections in ways…

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  • The Power of Color

    The Power of Color

    Color. It’s the natural extension to the series that begin with Provide Massive Space to Notice. So, after 180 Opportunities to Notice and How to Create 9 Identical Dot Patterns…

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  • How to Create 9 Identical Dot Patterns in 10 Seconds or Less

    How to Create 9 Identical Dot Patterns in 10 Seconds or Less

    Wow!  What a response to the last 2 posts!  In Provide Massive Space to Notice, I detailed how to use repeated dot patterns.  In 180 Opportunities to Notice, I simply…

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