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When it comes to math, students need hands-on activities to not only engage them but to help make the concepts concrete. Where can you get top-notch ideas, teaching tips, and lessons for your kiddos? Right here of course!

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Give your students the gift of multiplication this year with this fun holiday activity! It has a freebie waiting for you to get your students started to practice this important math skill!

The Gift of Multiplication for the Holidays

My students always need extra practice with multiplication, so this year I thought I’d give them the gift of multiplication for the holidays! Alright, so

Let me help you to teach elapsed time with these four different strategies. Check out these tips and ideas to include in a lesson while grabbing a FREEBIE!

Strategies to Teach Elapsed Time

I remember struggling with elapsed time as a child. I wanted to just simply line the numbers up and subtract. But, unfortunately, it wasn’t that

$Do you feel intimidated about starting math workshop in your classroom? Fear not! Just like everything in teaching, it is a bit of a process to set up math workshop. However, I walk you through all the steps I took to successfully set it up and run it in my classroom so that you can use this post as a guide. You can also learn more about my 3rd grade math workshop units for the entire year!$

Resources to Teach Math Workshop

Did your school district recently decide that everyone is now going to start doing the math workshop model? Or, perhaps you aren’t sure of the

There are a handful of addition and subtraction strategies that can be taught, but in this blog post, I'm sharing exactly how I teach the split strategy for addition and subtraction. Read all of my steps and download a free resource to help you implement the split strategy in your math instruction!

Teaching Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Teaching addition and subtraction strategies doesn’t have to be complicated once you understand them. I wrote recently about understanding the addition and subtraction strategies, and

The Common Core State Standards reference several "different" strategies for addition and subtraction, but when you really research them, you discover that there are really only three strategies. In this post, I teach you about the split strategy, the jump strategy, and the shortcut strategy. Get all of the details here

Understanding Addition & Subtraction Strategies

When Common Core stated that we needed to teach addition and subtraction strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition

Applied math is an essential aspect of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. To implement applied math in an engaging and authentic way, I created this "design my house" estimating area and perimeter activity, which you can read all about in this blog post!

Teaching Area Using Applied Math

With the implementation of CCSS, there is a shift toward applied math concepts and skills taught through the use of authentic, real-life problems rather than

Did you know that one year, I forgot to teach graphing? Oops! In an effort to make up for that big mistake, I created an entire math workshop unit that works to make graphing fun for students. It includes pictographs, bar graphs, and line plots, and students have SO much fun with the activities included! Read this post to learn more!

Make Graphing Fun!

The first year that our school district implemented Common Core math, I kind of accidentally overlooked graphing. Whoops! I mean, really – my bad. I

It's important for students to know and understand their multiplication facts and multiplication strategies, but it's equally as important for students to know multiplication shortcuts. This blog post describes how I went about teaching multiplication shortcuts to my students, so read the full post to get all of the details!

Teaching Multiplication Shortcuts

Multiplication. Multiplication is a BIG deal in third grade and up. In fact, it’s so vital that teaching multiplication shortcuts can sometimes be your saving

Geometry can be a lot of fun, OR it can be really miserable for kids. This blog post shares 10 ways to review attributes of geometric shapes - in hopes of making learning geometry fun for your upper elementary students!

10 Ways to Review the Attributes of Geometric Shapes

In third grade, students (and Common Core) just barely touch on the attributes of geometry, yet it seems on every practice test I find, there

Many upper elementary students find the distributive property to be tricky, so I prefer to take it slow while teaching it. In this post, I describe my exact steps for introducing the distributive property and working through mastering its basics with my students.

Teaching the Distributive Property

The distributive property can be a very tough concept for children to grasp. It seems that every year, I have to slow down and really

If you teach upper elementary math, then you probably need to teach area and perimeter. This blog post shares a collection of ideas for teaching area and perimeter, curated from several upper elementary bloggers! Click through to read more and get links!

A Collection of Area and Perimeter Ideas

I love to teach area and perimeter. It’s so much fun to pull out all the manipulatives, and it’s very easy for the students to

$Teaching math concepts so struggling learners understand can be possible! Are you doing all these ideas and tips to help your students understand math concepts in your elementary classroom?$

Teaching Math so Students Get It!

Math is very important. Even without all the standardized testing, we know that it’s critical for students to grasp it. Unfortunately, there are some students

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