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What is it that teachers need more of? Time and money! There’s never enough time in a day to teach everything we need to teach nor is there sufficient time in the day to prepare…
Math is about making sense and problem-solving. Math is everywhere. Math is real-life.
What is it that teachers need more of? Time and money! There’s never enough time in a day to teach everything we need to teach nor is there sufficient time in the day to prepare…
My class has been learning to find the area of shapes for a few weeks now. But now it was time to move on to find the area of irregular shapes. So far, my students…
Build conceptual understanding of comparing fractions using Google Slides. After familiarizing my students with comparing and ordering fractions with the fraction strips, the next step is to have them comparing fractions using virtual fraction strips.…
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…
Before I started teaching my third graders to compare fractions, I wanted to assess what they already knew about fractions. True story. I asked my students to write in their journal and complete this sentence:…