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

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

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