by Shannon McCartney | Oct 5, 2017 | *Math Games, *Math Manipulatives, *Math Workshop
Math involves a lot of preparation, especially when you’re using manipulatives. We want to put the C back in CPA (concrete, pictorial, abstract). Of course, C stands for concrete, but it also stands for careful planning! You don’t want to just have the Math Salad Bar...
by Shannon McCartney | Sep 28, 2017 | *Addition, *Early Intervention
I love listening to kids and their math reasoning when you give them an opportunity to tell you how they think! They have masterful minds. I love the ways they come up with to tell you how their brain is thinking, and even if they aren’t sure how their brain is...
by Shannon McCartney | Sep 21, 2017 | *Behavior Intervention, *Math Workshop, *Parent Connection, Audience - Teachers
It’s mid-September…the honeymoon is over. The excitement of the school year has worn off and Thanksgiving seems like an eternity away. If your school is anything like the one I visited today (a few kids having meltdown, a few kids visiting the sensory...
by Shannon McCartney | Sep 15, 2017 | *Early Intervention, *Numeracy, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - PreK
Kids can look at a digit and recognize it as an 8, but they often don’t understand what’s behind the digit. Yes, the symbol means 8, but 8 could be 4 and 4, or 5 and 3, or 6 and 2. In some countries, they teach letters last and the sounds first. If the student doesn’t...
by Shannon McCartney | Sep 8, 2017 | *Curriculum, *Math Manipulatives, *Multiplication, Audience - Upper Elementary (3-5)
Today, schools seem to place so much pressure on students to be able to do “fast facts.” Schools are giving out awards and incentivizing the memorization of facts with things like ice cream parties where students are only allowed to get a certain amount of ice cream...
