Modeling word problems with Thinking Blocks
Thinking Blocks is a website designed to help students solve math word problems accurately and efficiently using models. The models provide …
Category Archives: Grade 2
Math Games
Looking for fun math games that support learning? Click here for games from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Click …
Building Number Sense with Skip Counting
Begin in younger grades by skip counting by 2, 5, and 10. Here’s a great video that shows how counting …
Singapore Math Strategies
Before addressing specific strategies, it is instructive to read about Singapore’s rationale for school mathematics, as expressed in the syllabus …
Listening to student voices
Click here to read an excellent article from The Math Forum @ Drexel on encouraging discourse in math classes from …
First Grade Mathematics
Click here to read an excellent article by Yale mathematician Roger Howe on the mathematics of first grade.
Morning Warm Up
Here’s an idea to add to your morning routine: ~Fact of the Day (12 + 9, 7 x 8) ~Estimate …
What does it mean to understand place value?
Click here for an excellent article on the necessary components students need to assemble in order to understand place value …
Differentiating Math Tasks
Click here for strategies that help transfer typical textbook problems into differentiated tasks.
Arithmogons
Here is a great site with more on the Arithmogons activity.
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