NCTM Annual Meeting
Click here to watch NCTM President Linda Gojak’s excellent presentation on Eight Instructional Practices to Promote Grades K – 8 Number Sense. …
Category Archives: Grade 2
Building Number Sense with the Number Line
Watch this short video to see how using a number line helps students see the relationship between numbers when subtracting. …
NEW Educational Apps!
Check out these three new iOS apps from the creator of the Math SPOT: Place Value Cards The research behind …
New FREE product for practice with equality, mental math, algebraic thinking
Researchers have found that students often view the equal sign as a “do something” signal. What can we do to …
Fun and Learning on Pi Day
With March upon us, here are some ideas for activities and investigations on Pi Day (3/14): 1. Read The Greedy …
Teaching Math to the Core
Grab some popcorn, sit back, and relax while watching four math teachers who challenge and inspire their students to engage in …
Hundreds and Hundreds of Beans
When children first move beyond tens and ones and venture into the hundreds place, it can be confusing to see …
How many ways can you say 124?
Fourth graders learning about decimal numbers are often confused when asked, for example, to represent 3 and 16 tenths, for …
Struggle: Building Strength or Revealing Weakness?
Do you ever feel like you are helping your students too much and doing the thinking for them? Are you …
NCTM President Discusses Rigor
What should rigor look like in a math classroom? Click here for a discussion by Linda Gojak, President of the …
The Math SPOT 