Category: Downloadables

  • 100 Subitizing Slides & 10 Challenge Patterns

    100 Subitizing Slides & 10 Challenge Patterns

    With a click, a pattern of dots appears on your screen.  Instantly your students tell how many.  They don’t count the dots.  Instead they simply know the total at a…

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  • 80 Printable Cube Conversations Pages and 4 Instructional Strategies

    80 Printable Cube Conversations Pages and 4 Instructional Strategies

    Several weeks ago, I posted Cube Conversations, which is a set of 80 animated lessons designed to promote visually rich math discourse.  You can learn more about – and download…

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  • Cube Conversations

    Cube Conversations

        Cube Conversations is a set of 80 (eighty!) animated lessons designed to promote visually rich math discourse.  I’ve designed these lessons to invite many voices and vantage points…

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  • Can You Solve the Duplicator Lab Riddles?

    Can You Solve the Duplicator Lab Riddles?

    “You have unwittingly stumbled into a duplicator lab…” As you watch this brief, animated story about the duplicator lab – which includes 3 riddles – you may find yourself reaching…

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  • The Nested Splat! Series

    The Nested Splat! Series

    Here are 35 brand new Splat! lessons ready to download and use in your classroom. This time the Splats! are nested within each other. If you enjoyed 50 lessons in…

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  • The Cube Carving Template

    The Cube Carving Template

    The Cube Carving Template allows you to create very interesting 3-dimensional images in 10 seconds or less.  This post includes the downloadable template and explains how to use it.  I…

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  • 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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