Now that my students were familiar with comparing and ordering fractions, the next step was to have them comparing fractions using Google Slides. It is one thing to be able to show how to compare…
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:…
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…
I have a vivid memory of learning multiplication in third grade. My teacher, Mrs. Bowman, drew three circles on the chalkboard. Then she put five milk bottles in each one. She said this is 3…
