Multiplication and Division Problem Types
Multiplication and division often involve grouping or partitioning collections of countable objects. Problems of this type involve three quantities as illustrated …
Category Archives: Grade 4
Instructional Strategies that Support the Mathematical Practices
Click here to watch a great video on skip counting. Notice the following: 1. The teacher’s use of think, pause, …
Primes and Composites, Factorization, GCF and LCM
In order to reason successfully with fractions, students need to understand the relationships between numbers and their factors and multiples. …
Addition and Subtraction Models
Click here for a good example of how comparison and part-whole models can help students solve problems with addition and …
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 …
Sample Assessment Items for the Common Core
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium released a new round of sample assessment items this week. Click here to try the …
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 …
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