In Part 1 of How to Compare Fractions, I explained how I used fraction strips to have students explore fraction sizes. Comparing fractions and their sizes visually helped my students establish a benchmark fraction of…
Did you ever think that as a third-grade teacher or even as an elementary teacher you would be teaching the Distributive Property of Multiplication? When I started teaching over 30 years ago, there weren’t even…
If you’ve ever taken geometry from elementary school to college, you know that there’s a lot of geometry vocabulary that must be learned. Think about all the geometry vocabulary for the names of the shapes,…
I previously blogged about how I taught my third graders to compare fractions using models, number lines and fractions strips. But what about equivalent fractions? I used the same models, number lines and fractions strips…
Let’s face it, fractions are hard. And it is very hard for 8 year olds to conceptually see fraction sizes to compare them. So what’s a teacher to do? Bring out the manipulatives! I am…
Last year was the first year I had to teach under the Common Core math standards. Under the Common Core standards for third grade math is this doozy of a standard: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.B.5 Teaching the Distributive Property…
