Throughout our short geometry unit, we've had a big emphasis on vocabulary. After a lot of examining related words, the class wanted to...

Day Two After our hands-on intro to perimeter learning, the kids had a chance to do some authentic measuring of perimeter using their own...

To help students tune into measurement, our student teacher and I challenged the kids in math class to do this: Find an object in the cla...

This book was a source of inspiration last week to practice multiplication skills: One is a Snail Ten is a Crab Before I even opened...

Today was an introduction to probability. On the board, I had typed this sentence, "We are about to start talking about probability....

I was inspired one weekend when my husband set out money for our helper's weekly trip to the grocery store. She has off-the-charts ment...

To kick off our Math classes, I show this awesomely hilarious video (of course - it's a beginning of the year staple):  The kids the...

Last week after introducing plotting fractions on number lines, I was worried. Like, very worried. The kids didn't seem to "g...

This week my students did a great vocabulary activity to help acquaint them with some of the vocabulary related to fractions. After some...

This week in Math we talked about probability. First up, what is it? We created an ActivBoard web of all the student's prior knowledg...

Today in Math we were talking about mental math strategies. We did some sample questions and then talked them out in pairs and small group...

I know it's been done before {hasn't it all in this profession? Just in new ways?} but my class Loved this activity! Laminated pap...