What are some of the strategies you teach your students or children to add two and three digit numbers? Do you use compensation? Or do you begin teaching with the standard algorithm? Teaching students to…
Just the other day, I taught a lesson about making a TEN to add sums greater than ten. For example, with 8 + 6, you could increase the 8 to a 10 and reduce the 6…
Most teachers report that students struggle with multiplication fluency. In fact, the problem is pervasive enough that even my son’s eighth-grade math teacher said the same thing at his Back To School Night presentation to the…
Teaching second grade has given me a much better understanding of how second graders are prepared for third grade. If you examine the Common Core State Standards for Math, you will see that place value…
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…
