From Ones to Thousands: Engaging Place Value Activities for 3rd Graders
Place value is the foundation of all the other math students learn in 3rd grade. In this blog post, you’ll find 3rd grade place value activities that will engage students and give them the firm foundation needed to start the year in math. Read on to learn about these place value activities.
Multiplying by 9: Math Tricks and Activities
Multiplying by 9 can be one of the trickiest parts of the multiplication table to learn. In this post, I’m sharing tips, math tricks, and activities to help master those 9 multiplication table facts. Read on to learn more.
The Best Teacher Gifts for Teacher Appreciation Week
Trying to find the best teacher gifts for teacher appreciation week, Christmas, or another season? Look no further! In this blog post, you’ll find the very best teacher gifts, recommended by a teacher. Find the best teacher gifts that teachers will be sure to appreciate here.
Simple Skip Counting Activities to Help with Multiplication Skills
Skip counting can be a great way for students to learn about and practice multiplication. It helps students memorize multiplication facts and helps students see multiplication patterns. Could you use some simple skip counting activities to help students with multiplication? Read on to find them.
Ways to Build Multiplication Skills at Home: From Zero to Hero
Is your child starting to learn multiplication facts? Does your child struggle with remembering multiplication facts or solving multiplication problems?
This blog post will give you 5 tips for learning multiplication facts at home. Read on for ways to help your child master those multiplication facts!
Step-by-Step Success: Ways to Support Students in Following Multi-Step Directions
Do you struggle with getting your class to follow multi-step directions? Are you always repeating yourself? As teachers, we’ve all been there. It can be so frustrating!
This blog post will give you strategies for multi-step directions that will help take some of this frustration away. Read on for more.
10 Amazing Ways to Use Task Cards in Your Classroom
Task cards….what are they and how can you use them in your classroom? Task cards are more than just problems on cards. They are a way to get your students engaged in every subject. How do you use them to engage students? By using them in a variety of ways.
In this blog post, we’ll go over 10 amazing ways to use task cards in your classroom! Read on for more.
Boosting Engagement: How Boom™ Cards Keep Early Finishers on Task
We all have those students who make our job easy. They catch on to concepts quickly and do their work quickly and thoroughly….and they finish their work before all the other students. This means these early finishers also become bored quickly.
What to do with these early finishers that relieves boredom and also challenges them academically? Boom™ Cards may be just the solution you’re looking for. In this blog post, we’ll look at reasons Boom™ Cards are perfect for your early finishers.
4 Amazing Activity Ideas for Math Centers in Your Elementary Classroom
Math centers are an engaging and important part of the elementary math classroom. Math centers not only let students practice math skills, but they also allow the teacher to work with small groups.
But what should your students DO in math centers? In this blog post, you’ll get 4 different math activities that can be used in your math centers. These activities will help make math centers stress-free for you and your students.
Helping Your Students Get a Head Start when Beginning Multiplication
Are you going to start teaching multiplication soon?
Third grade is THE YEAR for introducing students to multiplication. And those multiplication skills will carry over into all the grades after that.
You need to get your students off to a great start with multiplication. Understanding those beginning multiplication concepts is SO important to their math future.
Good news…I have plenty of beginning multiplication tips and resources to help your students master multiplication.
Practice Math With These Fun Digital Math Games for Third Grade!
Third Grade is often students’ first year for state testing. A lot of brand new math concepts are introduced (multiplication and division, anyone?). And students are expected to use higher-level thinking skills to solve word problems.
All of this creates a lot of stress for teachers. How do you get students to master all those math standards by third grade state testing?
Harnessing the Power of Math Keywords in the Elementary Classroom
When it comes to math word problems, keywords can be a valuable tool in a math teacher’s toolbox. However, they can also hinder student understanding of word problems. In this blog post, we’ll go over some strategies for using math keywords with your students. We’ll also discuss the pros and cons of using math keywords with your students.
Boost Math Skills with These 5 Rounding Tips
Rounding can be one of the most difficult math concepts for students to master. If you’re struggling to find ways to make rounding make sense for your elementary math students, you’re in the right place.
In this blog post, we’re focusing on 5 ways to help students understand rounding. These tips will help make rounding stress free for you and your students.