Teaching and Learning
Part 4 – New Esti-Mysteries and Number Sense Resources Every Day for the Rest of the School Year
To support fellow educators during this extremely challenging year, I’m posting a brand new, downloadable math resource every day through the end of the school year. The purpose is to provide encouragement, to share a brand new classroom resource every day, and to promote joy in the math classroom. In the midst of the…
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Part 3 – New Esti-Mysteries and Number Sense Resources Every Day for the Rest of the School Year
Hi, Friends. I’m posting a brand new, free math resource every school day for the rest of the school year. This is part 3 of the series. This effort is my way of spreading encouragement, providing a daily resource to fellow educators, and promoting math joy during a challenging year. I look forward to posting…
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The Multiplication Course by Steve Wyborney
The Multiplication Course by Steve Wyborney is finished and completely ready! It is a highly interactive multiplication course – on YouTube – with 156 short videos. They are completely ready for all students, all teachers, all parents, everyone! The course teaches students deep, rich, and important multiplication concepts while they are also learning…
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The 12 Most Popular Math Strategies and Downloads
Over the past 5 years, this blog has seen nearly 3.1 million views. The most popular strategies from the blog all have one thing in common: They include downloadable resources and strategies which can be immediately used in the classroom. They are also free! I’m sometimes asked these two questions: “Which are the most popular…
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FREE e-Book: Top 20 Teaching Tips for 2020
At the beginning of every calendar year, I write something new for the education community. In 2017, I wrote Splat! (It took me until nearly the middle of February to finish it that year!) In 2018, I wrote Cube Conversations (I actually managed to finish that series a few days early, just before January.) In…
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The Estimation Clipboard
The Estimation Clipboard is a set of 40 lessons that each include 4 highly similar images. Each image provides an invitation to estimate. Then as new images are introduced, the students’ context and intrigue will grow – and so will their excitement. Jennifer Barker recently wrote about her experience with The Estimation Clipboard in her…
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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 – all 80 of the Cube Conversations lessons here. Today, I’m adding a new – and very important – element to the series, which is…
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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 the Splat! post involved whole numbers. In this post, I’ve turned my attention to fractions, and have created 20 new lessons for you to download!…
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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!) free, downloadable PowerPoint math lessons! Watch the video, download some (or all) of the lessons, and experience what happens when you unleash this resource in…
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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 resource that can be used in any grade, K-12. This post follows up the wildly popular Tiled Area Questions and Primary Tile Questions posts with even…
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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 area and the value of the shapes to be intriguing. You’ll also find 3 PowerPoint lessons which you can download along with 3 PDFs which…
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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 like this version. Watch the video, download the resources, and give your student the opportunity to visualize, decompose, compare, and compose numbers. Click…
