by Shannon McCartney | Oct 31, 2018 | *Number Talks, *Numeracy, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - PreK
Let’s take a deeper look at number talks! (Missed last week’s post? We talked about building strategies and using exit tickets to move number talks forward! Go read it!) As teachers, even the best of us can sometimes find ourselves in a stagnant pattern of...
by Shannon McCartney | 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 Shannon McCartney | Oct 19, 2018 | *Assessment, *Curriculum, *Math Practices, Audience - Teachers
As we established last week, while the standards are the same for everyone, each program has a different thought process, different activities, and their lesson for that standard will be completely different. Some books may introduce the concept of a number bond and...
by Shannon McCartney | Oct 11, 2018 | *Curriculum, *Math Manipulatives, *Math Practices, Audience - Teachers
There are so many different types of math programs available – Everyday Math, My Math, Go Math, Eureka Math/EngageNY, Math Expressions. They’re all designed around the same standards, though the way each program teaches the standards can be very different. ...
by Shannon McCartney | Oct 2, 2018 | *Addition, *Assessment, *Early Intervention, *Numeracy, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2)
The two previous blogs in the Importance of Numeracy Screening series looked at the idea of real objects in the physical world and looking at the development of kinesthetic one-to-one correspondence. This is followed by spending some good quality time on conservation...
