In July, Noelle presented an incredible training about what teachers can do to combat unfinished learning in math. Because the information was so relevant and useful, I thought it would be helpful for it to exist in a blog post as well. When your students aren’t where you want them to be, it can be easy to just keep trucking along. Ignoring the unfinished learning in your classroom ...
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2022-2024 New Additions – 6th Grade CCSS
6th grade ccss New Additions: STANDARDS REFERENCE GUIDE We have created a Google Sheet to help you navigate where each standard is covered in our curricula! This searchable database will allow you to find where every single standard is covered across student handouts, homework, assessments, activities, and digital activities. The Standards Reference Guide is color […] ...
2022-2024 New Additions – 6th Grade CCSS
6th grade ccss New Additions: STANDARDS REFERENCE GUIDE We have created a Google Sheet to help you navigate where each standard is covered in our curricula! This searchable database will allow you to find where every single standard is covered across student handouts, homework, assessments, activities, and digital activities. The Standards Reference Guide is color coded, ...
Tips for a New Math Teacher
Welcome, New Math Teacher! If you have made it to this blog post, you are most likely about to enter your first year of teaching or your first year of teaching math. (And if you are a veteran math teacher, we would love for you to share your tips in the comments :)) We will be attempting to cover everything that will set you up for success in your first year. If you haven’t read part ...
Ordering Rational Numbers
Comparing and ordering rational numbers is a complex skill with many steps, often complicated by the number of ways the problem can be presented. These tips and ideas will help scaffold this skill and make it more hands-on and engaging for your students. Standards Comparing and ordering rational numbers is predominantly a 6th grade skill in both Common Core and TEKS. It will also ...
Teaching Multiplying and Dividing Integers
Multiplying and dividing integers is the perfect math concept - the computation is relatively simple, there are opportunities for hands-on learning with manipulatives, and there are an abundance of explanations that support the conceptual understanding. However, it is a little tricky! Be sure to read “How to Teach Integer Operations” where we cover the specifics on adding and ...
Teaching Math Vocabulary that Sticks
For math to be accessible to students, math vocabulary must be taught! Let's talk about teaching math vocabulary in a way that sticks! Let’s see how important math vocabulary is to understanding and solving this problem. Could you solve this problem? I covered up a vital piece of information needed to solve this problem to emulate what a student might experience without knowing ...
Concrete Representational Abstract Sequence
The CRA framework is an instructional strategy that stands for concrete, representational, and abstract; it is critical to helping students move through their learning of math concepts. To fully understand the idea behind CRA, or concrete representational abstract, think about a small child learning to count. They may learn counting to 10 by memorizing a song. Then, these ...
Turn Worksheets into Easy Math Activities
Easy math activities - is this an oxymoron? It doesn't have to be. You don’t have to be a teacher long to see that a worksheet full of problems does not incite the excitement and enthusiasm of many of your students. However, try any of these easy math activities, and you will experience unprecedented levels of excitement from your class. Now that I am a parent, I see this ...
Essential Math Manipulatives
Math manipulatives are some of the best ways to introduce a new mathematical concept and are the foundation of the C-R-A. They help to form a solid mathematical foundation as students move from concrete understanding to representational to abstract. By providing the opportunity to concretely work with the manipulatives, students are able to develop a conceptual understanding rather ...