by Shannon McCartney | Apr 9, 2020 | *Number Talks, *Word Problems, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - PreK, Series - Math in the Real World, Series - Math4Littles
We can help our children experience math in the real world by providing thousands and thousands of experiences with real objects in the physical world. But what’s next? Last week we focused on providing some of those real life experiences for littles through...
by Shannon McCartney | Apr 2, 2020 | *Math Practices, *Number Talks, *Word Problems, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - PreK, Series - Math in the Real World, Series - Math4Littles
Mathematical Practice 2 states that children should be able to “Reason abstractly and quantitatively.” What does that even mean?? This is one of the math practices that really stumps many of the teachers I work with, and rightly so! The practice itself is a little...
by Shannon McCartney | Mar 27, 2020 | *Fractions, *Math Manipulatives, *Math Mights, *Subtraction, Audience - Upper Elementary (3-5), Series - Working with Fractions
Last, but not least, we’re closing out our Working with Fractions series with subtracting fractions with Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract (CPA) means. When it comes to subtracting fractions, this operation is very similar to adding fractions in how students...
by Shannon McCartney | Mar 20, 2020 | *Addition, *Fractions, Audience - Upper Elementary (3-5), Series - Working with Fractions
How did you learn how to add fractions as a child? I remember my teacher telling me to add the numerator and just keep the denominator the same. I also vividly remember asking why? Why am I adding the top number, but not the bottom number?? The teacher answered...
by Shannon McCartney | Mar 12, 2020 | *Division, *Fractions, Series - Working with Fractions
For most of us dividing fraction is one of those things where we got the right answer in math, but we don’t really remember why. Most of us memorized a procedure with a concept we don’t understand: “don’t ask why, just invert and multiply.” Maybe it’s time to...
