by Sherry McElhannon | Oct 26, 2018 | *Addition, *Assessment, *Math Mights, *Math Practices, *Number Talks, Audience - K-5
As math teachers, many of us have been implementing number talks for quite some time. Number talks are an important part of math instruction, and conversation particularly around math strategies must be learned and practiced consistently. We encourage our...
by Sherry McElhannon | May 3, 2018 | *Addition, *Math Manipulatives, *Math Mights, *Place Value, Audience - K-5, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2)
Math Mania Continues! This week, meet The Value Pak family! We struggled with this character to truly be able to create something that captured what I was thinking. The Value Pak family represents the strategy of partial sums in our Math Mights Addition Strategies...
by Sherry McElhannon | Jul 19, 2017 | *Addition, *Math Mights, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - Upper Elementary (3-5)
Ever get confused by all the strategies out there for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division? What if there were a fun, friendly, character that you could associate with each strategy to help you keep them straight?? Introducing the Math Mights! Strategic...
by Sherry McElhannon | Oct 5, 2016 | *Addition, *Math Practices
How did you learn addition? It was probably pretty straightforward, something like “start in the 1s column and add those first,” then “carry” if necessary, and move on to add the numbers in the 10s column. Many children today use the...